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Lettuce seeds are sprouting after four days!

Here is a picture of our lettuce seeds that started to break through the top soil after only four days! This is my first time growing  lettuce, so I'm not sure if this is normal for lettuce. I can say it seems like it sprouted fast. I'm starting to see many more seeds sprouting and reaching for the sun in the past two days. I started this garden on October 22nd, 2010.

The picture is blurry, but you can see the bright green in there!

Lettuce seeds sprouting already!

Noticed today that we have a ton of our lettuce seeds sprouting and breaking through to see the sun! Only a few days and these guys are already growing strong. I'll have a photo or two to show everyone tomorrow.

The compost pile is getting filled up

A quick photo of our compost pile from yesterday.

I have added some rich bagged compost, about two handfulls, to help speed up the composting process and plan to add some bonemeal to the pile as well.

You can see that just about everything we don't eat goes right into the pile for compost! There are onions, tomatoes, avocados, lettuce, peppers and I even throw in cardboard and other paper products thinking that if they are made form paper they should compost well...Any thoughts?