Planet Veggie Garden

Here’s what I picked this morning before it got too hot – it’s expected to be in the 90’s today in Oakland.

We have 3 kinds of lettuce: Cos Romaine, Speckled Romaine and an heirloom variety Brune d’Hiver – it’s long leafed like a romaine but creamy like a butter lettuce – and it’s a beautiful red. There’s also a tiny handful of purslane. Some consider it a weed but it’s nice tangy addition to a tossed green salad and high in omega 3’s to boot

There’s also lacinato kale (aka dino kale, black kale, palm tree kale), a poblano chile pepper, a pickling cuke, a lemon cuke, a meyer lemon and some basil tips – all of these will be part of my V-10 juice that I will make today in our Green Star juicer.

Then for a nice saute with some basil or tarragon tonight there’s a globe summer squash, romano beans AND our FIRST ripe Tomato. Appropriately enough, an early girl.

This is a plant that we ‘foolishly’ planted in the first week of May during an unusually early heat wave. Then the cold hit and Patti cleverly wrapped bubble wrap around the first foot and a half of the bottom of the tomato cage. It kept the plant happy until the weather warmed up and it’s been growing disease free and loaded with tomatoes since.

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