First cucumber! :)

Me and my mom pulled the first cucumber today! I wanted to wait a few more days but I just couldn't :)

It tasted like I figured it would; like a cucumber! At first I felt like something was missing; it didn't taste exactly like they did when we buy them at the store. But it wasn't chilled because I was too excited to wait :) So I stuck it in the fridge and surely, a couple hours later it tasted just like a real cucumber! Well, it IS a real cucumber :)

It was so exciting! I had everyone in the house try it. It was the first thing either me or my mom have ever grown from seed that we've eaten. It's kind of amazing :) We're pulling another one tomorrow because this one was gone quickly after the photos were taken :) There are a couple more out there that are probably big enough but we want them to grow a little longer first. Now I just need to figure out what to do with them all!

We know we're making pickles with some, cucumber salad with some, using some with regular salad, and eating some raw, but we're going to have cucumbers growing out of our ears! Does anyone have some good recipes involving cucumbers?

Ps. Why does my cucumber have those white dots where the prickles were? Is that okay to eat? I hope that doesn't mean I picked them too soon...Oops!

Well, that's all for today! :)

--Seana

Lettuce & An Update

Hello all :) Today, my mom and I planted some leaf lettuce in the garden. First things first, we certainly don't have a lot of room like I've mentioned, but our next door neighbor has a little garden fence in her yard, shaped to an octagon with lettuce inside so we decided to try :)

We bought these seeds from Walmart:

There were tons of weeds to be destroyed first (our dog Sam helped, he loves to dig!):

And then we planted about half the pack, and this is what we came up with!:

It's a small area, and we wanted to plant it on raised ground, but we didn't really have another choice. The seedlings are supposed to emerge in 7-10 days, so we're definitely keeping an eye out for that...Plus hoping we don't confuse them with weeds =/

In some other news, we pulled our first green onions today!:

 

It may have been a bit early but my mom was making an Asian dish for dinner that called for them so we figured we'd pull some. I didn't try it because I don't like Asian food, but everyone else said it was great, so I guess that was a success :)

-Seana