Exciting!
I bought one of those containers of lettuce that has the roots still attached - we ate the lettuce in a salad last night. The roots are in water right now, going into soil today, once I can get my rear in gear and head out to the greenhouse for some dirt.
Now we BOTH have a reason to live, LOL!
Dad (RIP 1995) was the best gardener. Way way back when hydroponic lettuce came into the grocery stores maybe late 80’s, he went into his local store in Chicago. There was a bin of hydroponic lettuce that had gotten old and some rotted. About a dozen heads. Probably people in that neighborhood had not seen hydroponic lettuce before. Anyway he was like a food inspector in the store, always pointing things out to the workers when produce or meat looked bad. Actually one time they thought he WAS the food inspector. Anyway he called over someone and said these are all rotten but I would buy them for 4 cents a head. They were happy yo mark them and get rid of them. It was summer and he sheared off all the tops and planted the roots. He got new heads off every single one.