Harvesting lettuce

It turns out our thumbs aren't so green after all.

We decided we would be gardeners this year and try our hand at growing squash, watermelon, cucumber, tomato, lettuce/spinach, etc...

Our seedlings took off growing at rapid speeds. We were amazed and patting ourselves on the back for a job well done. Then when we transplanted the seedlings and every last one of them withered away to nothing.

That's okay. It was a learning experience after all. After our seedlings died we bought larger established tomato plants, blackberry bushes, blueberry bushes, and strawberries.

Lucky for us, lettuce and spinach are fairly easy to grow, even for our not so green thumbs.