I planted my garden toward the end of October. We’ve been eating salads out of it on and off all winter.

Last night I picked a delicious batch of greens and we made taco salad with deer burger. The garden supplied a beautiful head of romaine that I made everyone admire before I broke it apart. I also harvested a small oak leaf lettuce head, some Asian red mustard leaves, some green onions and cilantro.

I always spend too much money on seed and don’t have the time to maintain my vegetable garden as it should be. Still, those high dollar salads are very satisfying.

While I was harvesting I scored three bouquets of flowers just before the rain came in . I made arrangements for the bar between the living room and kitchen, for my wall vase above the kitchen sink and for the back of the bathroom toilet. The arrangement on my bar is my favorite. It contains leucothoe (Agarista populifolia) filler, blooming sprigs of pearl bush (Exochorda racemosa) and 5 or 6 kinds of daffodils.