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Thursday, April 17, 2014

Fresh Spinach

I had fresh Spinach from the garden yesterday....no really! .......I't's true!!!!

It's transplanting time....


All the seedlings are getting tall and leggy, and they're just screaming at me to put them out....trust me....they are....I even hear them in my sleep.





So yesterday, I transplanted the Lettuce and the Spinach....it's a very labor intensive job. As I was planting the spinach I was tidying them off by removing the cotyledons.


cotyledon

 noun    (Concise Encyclopedia)

(Top) Monocotyledon (internal structures of a corn seed with stages of germination). Nutrients are …—© Merriam-Webster Inc.
Seed leaf within the embryo of a seed that provides energy and nutrients for the developing seedling. After the first true leaves have formed, they wither and fall off. Flowering plants whose embryos have a single cotyledon are grouped as monocots, or monocotyledonous plants; embryos with two cotyledons are grouped as dicots, or dicotyledonous plants. Unlike flowering plants,gymnosperms usually have several cotyledons rather than one or two.

It's very difficult to pinch off those tiny leaves when you have gloves on...I was afraid of breaking the fragile plants in half...but then I got a great idea.....


Just EAT them off!!!!! It worked great.....and they were SO YUMMY!!!  The first fresh spinach of the season!!!


I'm going to need more pants..........

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3 comments:

  1. AnonymousApril 18, 2014 at 3:23 AM

    you funny -

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  2. KelleyApril 18, 2014 at 10:10 AM

    Other then you wanted the claim of being the first to eat fresh spinach, why do you bother taking them off? I want to get things planted as quickly as possible! :)

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    1. LoriApril 18, 2014 at 10:53 AM

      They interfere with the actual transplanting process......I like to keep as much of the foliage as possible from touching the soil. They are just going to die anyways and look bad....and I can bury the seedling a little deeper if necessary. I don't do it to all of them.....just the long, stringy ones that are definitely going to be in the way

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