Making Salad from the Garden

Been pretty smoking hot, so I better get those greens out of the garden before they go bitter. Going to harvest a great lot of spinach, mesclun mix, and more.

Here is a great summer supper salad recipe, courtesy of all places Super Valu!

8 cups mesclun salad mix
1 cup sliced chopped sweet peppers
1/2 cups toasted walnut or pecan pieces
1/2 cup dired cranberries
1/2 cup soft goat cheese
Balsamic or red wine vinaigrette dressing.  Nasturtium blossoms if you have them.  And we do!!!

Place salad mix in large bowl.  Add peppes, walnuts and ried cranberries and toss. Crumble goat cheese on top and drizzle with vinaigrette, to taste. Tope with nasturtium blossom for garnish.

Harvesting rhubarb, sunflower and coleus leaves for lots of little plates, hopefully get them into the next kiln along with about 1 bazillion buttons.

May, where did it go??

 I really can't believe it's the end of May!  Where did the month go?  I still feel like I am behind in the garden, a week of rain and being away for almost 5 days didn't help, and how can I sell quack grass???

I have an amazing amount of quack grass where I want to be growing greens for Farmer's Market.  I would like to have more variety through the whole summer season, not just end of season stuff like peppers, tomatoes and squashes, but get in early on things.  I planted dinosaur Kale today, which is supposed to be blue green and quite hearty , so I will be interested to see that.  Lenore brought me beautiful heirloon tomato plants, 14 which went into the ground today, so I have great hopes for them as well.

I still haven't found Okra plants, which I really want to have for my Edible Landscape, the flowers are so beautiful.