In My San Diego Garden and Kitchen

The thumbnail photo aptly summarizes the garden: ample broccoli sideshows, lettuce to share and flowers blooming with spring abandon.

Over time, the sideshows get smaller. These are not from the fall-planted broccoli but from the new basal plant that developed and became a medium-sized plant. A few of the fifteen plants produced a small head about 4 inches across. Sort of two crops from the same original plant.

I harvested four very large heads of leafy Alkindus lettuce (Territorial Seed Co.). I’ve noted it is slower to bolt than my other two favorites, Newham and Rosaine. San Diego, like much of the west had unusually warm weather for March which lettuce does not like.

Mixed greens for a salad.

Trimmed heads of Newham lettuce.

Even large leaves of Catalina spinach work well in mixed dishes or steamed as a side dish.

Robyn Gordon Grevillea blooms heavily with the seasonal changes.

Check the What I’m Planting Now page as I continue to plant and succession sow in the cool season garden and begin to think about the warm season garden.

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