Quote Originally Posted by BleeckerSt_Girl View Post
I went on a 5 day trip and when i got home my veggie garden was bursting with perfect lettuce- far more than we can eat. Not surprising since I tend to plant more lettuce seed than we need- i love to experiment with the various colors and types, and lettuce seed doesn't cost much. Lettuce varieties are so pretty!

So just like last year i harvested a whole bunch, washed, bagged it in several gallon ziplock bags and brought it to my town's silent food pantry, where i volunteer several times a month. My 'thing' is bringing my extra garden produce there all summer when I have a surplus.

For dinner my husband and I had a big fresh salad of lettuces and radishes with chevre cheese, out on the kitchen porch overlooking the garden in the golden late afternoon sun. Our honeybees were all over the catmint in full bloom...so lovely!

What a wonderful evening dinner! It sounds so peaceful. I finally got my garden in last week. Planted eggplant, tomatoes, squashes of various types, cucumbers, winter savory, basil, thyme, seeds of green beans, chard, lettuce, parsley.

Also, got my seed bed for flowers in; sunflowers, cosmos, zinnias, marigolds, naturtiums, and also put in some lettuce and herb seeds in this bed as well. Hopefully, it will be as pretty as last year's flower bed. Put some 4 oclocks and tall marigolds in a pot and planted some new hollyhocks in the perennial bed next to the vege raised beds.