Transplanting Lettuce

Seeded in a row, lettuce comes up thick, with little elbow room for neighbors.

This crowded situation can work for cutting salad mixes, but I have read that giving each plant a little room is ideal.

I teased apart the individual plants (ideally keeping some soil on the roots), and prepared to re-plant them with more spacing between each plant.

And here are the former apartment dwellers, moved into the roomy suburbs. The mild weather that we have had here is ideal for transplanting, yet I still need to be faithful to water the plants daily.