January Plantings

I was buying lettuce at the grocery store yesterday and my 9 year old son says, “Can’t we just make lettuce?”  Huh, I thought...make lettuce?  “What do you mean?”  “You know, can’t we just plant some seeds and grow it?”  Yes. Yes, we can.

So today, on a cold day in January, "we" planted lettuce, kale, and beet seeds.  I also pulled some weeds while they dug holes looking for worms.  It was nice to get the rest of one side of my garden planted.  The ground was still soggy from all our rainy weather but by the end of our gardening session together, we began "making" our lettuce.  You know it's a good day when your shoes are full of mud and you're growing food for your family.  It was a good day.