Yay! Lettuce!

This miniature lettuce may in time grow big enough to make salad. The scale is perhaps difficult to see, so I should tell you to think in the half inch range. This miniature lettuce may, however, be stunted forever by my inability to thin! I can’t bear to pluck one and leave another, so the plants end up too close together to do as well as they might. Last year I figured out that putting the seeds farther apart to begin with can compensate a bit for this psychological deficit on my part. But lettuce seeds are so small that it’s hard to space them. It sounds like I might be trying to make excuses! I’m probably just overthinking this and should return to my joy that the seeds sprouted. That’s enough emotion for today.

[kali]

mesclun is grown like that on purpose, designed to just cut individual leaves as they get large enough and they keep on growing.

[Walks @ 7]

I say you should be congratulated period, 1st for planting a garden and 2nd for getting success of sprouts and plants. Nice macro too.

[Sam]

I love home grown lettuce - delicious :)

[katy]

LOL! Such a fun narrative but I think I can I get a fire with your inability to thin. I sometimes feel the same way. A beautiful close-up detail shot of it though