Thanks so much folks! The things you don't realise about starting to grow
It's def warming up here - not even a sniff of blizzard thank heavens! It's been raining and very blow-y (I lost a bottle-top mini greenhouse from the lettuce, just like you mentioned, Ann).
Remember the deaded lettuce? Well, I pulled most of the weedy little things out (and ate them - not very filling), and left the 5 most solid looking. I piled the soil up around those weedy stems so that just the little leaves were above the soil. Since then, they've started to look more like Tony's and they may make it after all. I'm hoping that when they get a little bit bigger, I can plant them on into individual window sill pots and those once-weedy-stems will become part of the root system. Do you think that will work?
The outdoor broad beans are going good, notwithstanding the cat poo.
I have some later planted ones (still indoors) that are almost ready for planting on.
Because they'd grown in the same environment as the others, they looked like they were going a bit leggy too. So what I did was wait until some leaves started appearing further down the stem closer to the soil, and then snipped the stem and original leaves off just above this new growth. I'm hoping this will help them be sturdier, as long as I keep them well in the light. Sound like it will work?
