Sweet Peas, et al.

Lettuce gone wild! I had some old, old, old mesclun lettuce seed, which I half-heartedly tossed into some dirt and set outside on my deck. I never thought it would germinate. After several weeks of rainy days, look at this! I'm going to have some major thinning to do here, but at least I can add the thinnings to my salad.

I started sweet peas from seed, and tonight they were big enough to transplant into a container with an obelisk. I'm going to have a sweet pea tower! They look so puny today, it will be fun to take another picture when they are full grown -- in all their fragrant, sweet pea glory.

A Sad Chore

Today I had to thin out my seedlings. I hate doing this! I feel like a murderer. In the past, I would carefully thin the seedlings and re-plant every single one, because I couldn't bear to destroy what I had so tenderly raised. At least I'm not that crazy any more -- but I do save a few of them. I potted up about 6 extra stocks and one extra tomato. Here is a picture of my infants. Aren't they cute? I can't wait until they grow up and leave the basement!