Lately, I have this weird desire to grow things. ANYTHING. I want to know I can keep something alive I suppose. But,  I have literally killed every flower and several cacti I have ever been given or purchased. BAD! SO BAD! But, no one in my family gardens. I don’t live near a garden.  The most I ever heard about one really was that Nursery Rhyme: Mary, Mary, quite contrary, How does your garden grow? With silver bells, and cockle shells, And pretty maids all in a row? I’ve been CLUELESS! And as much as I wanted to try to have a plant the idea of paying a bunch of money for something I am probably going to kill never jumped to the top of my list. Until last week that is…

I happened to fall into a lovely conversation with this awesome actor/director named Phillip. Phillip is taking a class where they are teaching him to be self sufficient with things like gardening, composting, etc. VERY hippy dippy stuff that is. But, it is also pretty damn cool and environmentally friendly. WHO KNEW. At any rate, he started telling me how he was regrowing produce he’d purchased at the super market. “regrowing” I say? How the hell is THAT possible? My mind was blown and my regrowing experiment began.

Regrow. Re-grow. Okay, I thought. I can definitely try this idea. The item is technically dead sooo I don’t have to feel guilty if I “kill it”. Ha! Two it is based on food I have already in my fridge so nothing new to buy. Speaking of fridge… I needed I figure out what exactly was in there that might work. The food needs to have roots or certain kinds of stumps I was told. I had carrots but, they weren’t the kind with tops left on them…that’s a no go. I don’t have celery, green onion, nor leeks. Okay. BUT, I do have some romaine that I need to eat. GREAT! It’s already dead so if it doesn’t work…no harm no foul right? I wouldn’t be KILLING anything. I wouldn’t be spending extra money I didn’t have on this experiment. Instead, I could just play with the five heads of romaine stumps I already had…sounds easy enough. So, I made my salad like normal but, instead of throwing the stump away I began to play. First, I cut a small X into the very bottom of lettuce stump. Second, I took off most of bottom leaves. Third, I placed about 2 inches of water in a small cup. Fourth, I placed the stump in the window to get a little light. And then I just sat back and watched it grow. That’s it.

I had zero idea if it would actually work but, after five days I have lots of leaves!! It’s kind of amazing! I have yet to transplant it to soil but, I will check back in once I have.