What’s Growin’ On

It's sort of mean that we can't grow salad greens in the summer here in So Cal.  It's too hot and they bolt to seed so quickly.  I've tried growing lettuces under shade cloth and that helps a lot, but it's nowhere near as delicious as fall-grown salad greens.  One way to combat the heat is to grow slow-bolt or heat tolerant varieties.  Another is to try something completely different.

Enter Orach Mountain Spinach. 

I know I've talked about this fantastic green before, but I'm going to expound on the wonders of Orach again because this year was particularly ...

I'm a little bit of a late bloomer.  Or maybe it's just that I get used to looking at - or stepping over - something that's in my way and then I don't do anything about it for a long time.  It's kind of like that pile of laundry in the middle of the room.  It doesn't go away, but you start to ignore it - so it really isn't there any more, right?

This was the case with the wild patch of asparagus in the raised beds.  We're at the end of our second year, which means that ...