Alex Heberling

I transplanted the lettuce into their planters today!  There are five seedlings in each bucket, and I put the extra in the pop bottle planter that formerly belonged to the sunflowers.  I’m hoping that the plants were strong enough to survive the transplant, since I had some trouble getting them out of the fiber pots. [...]

Here we are on the 20th day of the lettuce!  They’re starting to look more lettucey by the day, and soon they’ll be big enough to transplant into pots.  I’m a little concerned that they’re rather leggy; long and spindly from reaching toward the light. It’s like the most adorable class portrait ever! Back row: [...]

Another photo from a walk the other day.  This was taken in the Tuttle Park area of the Olentangy Trail, where some slight flooding left large puddles here and there.  I found their reflections intriguing, so I snapped a few pictures, and this one turned out looking the most interesting.

Just when the freegan siren song of dumpster diving had faded from my ears, the dumpster came to me! Okay, not really.  But I went down to the laundry room today with a load of clothes, and found two boxes with a note written, “Tenants: please help yourself!”  One box had cleaning supplies, the other [...]

My lettuce seedlings are 13 days old and about an inch tall now!  I’ve noticed that they’re starting to suck up more water now, so I hope that means they’re healthy and stuff. The clovers are also sprouting along. The second clover sprout is actually in a tiny jelly jar.  Which will be interesting if [...]