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I know little about both gardening and plants. What I do know I have learned from books, from experience, and from mistakes. That knowledge hasn’t covered most the signs of maturity among my plants; some were obvious, such as the wax bean. The intricacies of lettuce have been harder to learn than it has been to grow.

Anyone can grow lettuce. Throw out some seeds, lightly water at dawn and dusk, wait two or three weeks, and presto! you have baby lettuce. But, now what? Like many, I harvested individual leaves early, before the lettuce qualified as a “head”. This leaf lettuce only amounted to a single serving at first picking, but that picking stimulated rapid growth. For the past month I’ve had nice heads of lettuce in my garden that provide biweekly salads.

Yet, last week I noticed that my lettuce aged almost over night. I looked a little closer and found the signs that I’d missed, so that I will harvest my heads in time from now on.

Maybe one day I won’t commit these mistakes as frequently.

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Afternoon everyone! Today is the day in which you get to see my little garden. It’s making great progress and food, and by next year may double in size. This is my garden, two beds of 30″ width and about 10′ in length. For a full gallery of pictures, scroll to the bottom of this post.

Wide shot of my garden.

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Anyone who knows me personally knows for a fact that I do not have a green thumb.  In fact, out of the 2-3 houseplants that formerly resided in my room the death rate has been 100%.

Usually the problems I faced were related to neglect.  Such as, but hardly limited to:

• Forgetting to open the shades.
• Forgetting to water the plant.
• Watering the plant too much.
• Putting a tropical plant beneath an air-conditioning vent, in summer.

So, the only logical thing to do was to plant a garden!

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