The Greens Are Back in Town...

Well, maybe they're not quite back in town, but moving in from the suburbs...We've really been missing those spring and early summer salads around here, even if we had more lettuce than we could keep up with back in May. I've not yet been successful at summertime or fall lettuce, this year being no exception. In early July I planted out a whole bed of heat resistant lettuce seedlings, but when I returned from Haiti in mid-month I found most of them eaten by critters.

 Here is one of the few that survived, a nice romaine (variety unknown.) Big enough now to add to a salad.

 I have mentioned Komatsuna before. These were planted a mere few weeks ago. Not as good as lettuce, they are a nice substitute in a salad and they are also good stir fried. In front there is one lonely bug-eaten Tatsoi, the only one in several rows sown that made it in the hot summer sun.

And here are a few of my late-sown lettuce (Forellenschluss in this case.) These germinated rather poorly, but I was able to transplant those that did to make a nice little lettuce bed that I hope will grow big enough to enjoy before the frost. I don't have a cold frame down in the garden yet, but I have a small one closer to our house. I'm thinking of starting some lettuce boxes that can be set out in there to get us salad in the late fall.
There are some young kale plants that I hope will get bigger before the days get too short that will make a good addition to the fall plate and might even overwinter to provide some of the earliest spring greens. Crossing my fingers that those greens are back to stay awhile and the creatures leave them alone!