I am back

Sorry for the long Hiatus, I feel like I have been running from one place to another for the last month. I am, however, thankful for all the rain we have gotten because it did a great job watering my garden. I am not sure I would have had the chance to do it everyday, otherwise. I think things have settled down now, so I will be able to water my plants and post things for all of you to read.

Anyway you didn't come here to read about my life, you've come to read about my garden. To make up for the long hiatus my goal for the weekend is to make at least one post a day, starting today. Each day I will show you something new that has happened within the last month. Above is an updated view of my small backyard. (a different angle today)

Okay, apology over. Now it's time to talk about my lettuce!
This is currently what my lettuce patch looks like. Not very full, right. The only type of lettuce growing is some "green ice." Here are some of the little seedlings.

So because my seeds aren't doing so well in the ground I decided to start some above the ground. I figured this would be a good idea for a few reasons:

• Less weeds in pots, so I will actually know what is a lettuce seedling and a what isn't
• I think lettuce does okay in pots, as long as there aren't to many squished together
• and I can move them around to better locations if I notice they aren't doing so well

First I started with some reused plastic pots. Some I had from when I bought flowers and a few others I found in someone's recycling bin. I got excited because I knew that I could reuse them instead of recycling them. Remember "Reduce, REUSE, Recycle" that means first you buy less, then you reuse what you can, and lastly you recycle what either can't be reused. Well I guess lastly you would throw things in the trash. But I digress.

I decided to use two pots of each type of lettuce except the Romaine and the Buttercrunch, because I am not sure that the seeds are still good (they are kind of old). So that means I have 10 pots of lettuce, hopefully they will all come up.

Here are the pots after they have been filled, seeded, and watered.


And here they are in their new home. This is one of the corners of the medium plot, where the tomatoes and the hot peppers will live once they are big enough. Right now is kind of like a nursery. You can kind of see it in the very top photo.