The Lettuce Tree

I was unaware that lettuce plants turned into trees:

Yes, I've picked some and made salad from it. There are actually three types of lettuce, this tall one that I'm calling the "sapling", a purple version of it (to the left in this next picture, if you look closely), and a much shorter, leafier green type. You can't see that one in the picture.

All of them are great! But... can I just chop the top off this sucker? It's big and tall and well... I want it to keep giving me lettuce. I also don't want it to turn into a beanstalk all on its own... The other two types of lettuce are growing well, but are not approaching tree proportions.

Lettuce growers - let me hear from you!

So - true story.

I went to Lowe's the other day to get more dirt, and some more cinder blocks for the garden foundation (the wood was starting to bow. You can probably see one of the new blocks in the lettuce pictures). 

The first place I went was to the far end of the store to get the blocks and one of the trucks they keep there just for people like me. Though apparently not "exactly* for people like me. I had just lifted my first block/brick, when one of the Lowe's guys rounded the corner and looked at me. Then, I kid you not...

He fussed at me. 

Yep, he sure did. He fussed at me for getting my own blocks, being all offended that I would dare to put four cinder blocks on my own truck thing. He came up, asked how many I needed, and then *informed* me that *next* time, I was to summon one of them for help. Oh yeah, he did. I told him that you know, I was the one who was going to be lugging them at home. And he said, no joke, "That's at home. Here - you call one of us." And then proceeded to put three more blocks on my truck. Chivalry is not dead, it seems. 

To head off trouble, when I checked out in the garden center, I didn't say a word when the cashier told me to pull my car up while she called for someone to load the stuff into it. 

Yep, I sure enough hauled it all myself when I got home. But apparently I am not allowed to do that at Lowe's.  ;-)

Tomorrow - Garden Expansion!

:)