Grow Grow Grow

I'm in the stage of my garden where I have so little work to do that I tend to just stare at my plants after they've been watered. And since the lettuce is the only thing growing in the garden so far that is all I look at. As I've said, I've never grown lettuce before so it is pretty intriguing to watch it grow. My seedlings are starting to shoot up their first real leaves. Though "shoot up" is a bit too exciting for what they are doing. More like painfully thrusting up into the cruel world. Doesn't that sound a little bit slower to you? It did to me too. Anyway.

I'm about to go plant my peas, which are currently taking a little bath to soften their seed coats. I don't know if that actually works but I read that it does somewhere so I'm going to try it just in case. I just hope they don't drown. And tomorrow I'm going to Decorah with my cousin and uncle! It's going to be a blast and we're going to pick up my sister who goes to college at Luther and then have lunch at the Co-op there. After lunch we will of course be taking a trip to Seed Savers to look around at what they have going and get some seeds and maybe some transplants. I don't really need anything else. But who isn't addicted to looking at all the cool heirloom vegetables. Let's be honest.

I'll take a picture of my baby lettuces (though baby is a little bit bigger than what I have, maybe I should say lettuce fetuses?) and my homemade pea trellises, which are sitting in my homemade raised bed. It is all rather exciting for me.