My lone Pineapple tomato seedling has two sets of true leaves now, and is VERY ready to be planted in a different container. I just have to make that happen. The roots look incredible. That is a fun part about an Aerogarden, I get to lift up the lid and actually SEE what's happening.
My lettuce, I've been told, will be a part of my husband's birthday salad tomorrow. That is the real reason for this post. I wanted to actually DOCUMENT the growth, before he mutilates my plants. I don't know why I get this way. I grow this stuff to be eaten, and then I fall in love. Don't you DARE hurt my babies! I could never be an animal farmer. As far as I'm concerned, steak comes from a steak tree, and that's the only way I eat it. We have a whole deer in the freezer right now (we receive one or two a year, as a present from my father in law). I want nothing to do with seeing pictures of the "kill" until it has completely been consumed. I love meat, but I have over-attachment issues.
I suffer from the same "ailment" as you. I'd love to say I don't eat meat, but I do. I just don't like to think of where it came from. One year I befriended a little steer in a neighbor's pasture, and when he went from pasture to freezer, I cried and cried and almost quit eating meat right then and there. Like you, I also think of my seedlings as my babies.
ReplyDeleteThe seedlings look great! I've always wanted an aerogarden!
ReplyDeleteAnnie's Granny- I'm pretty sure I would have stopped eating meat myself after that experience. I think tomato seedlings are my most precious babies (if a "mother" can have a favorite child) but by the time you eat from them, they are large, and I have NO problem eating the tomatoes!
ReplyDeletemeemsnyc- Thanks! This has certainly been a fun experience, and something nice to get me through the winter, since I don't have any tunnels set up yet.