In My San Diego Garden and Kitchen

Salads like this one are thrown together with garden ingredients most every day during salad season. Currently, a 4x4 foot square of various kinds of lettuce makes for varied and colorful salads.

‘Marvel of Four Seasons’, spinach, ‘Marvel of Four Seasons’, ‘Sea of Red’, ‘Lollo Rossa’.

Here’s the last of an earlier sowing of ‘Sea of Red’ lettuce. Cold weather seems to deepen the red while the contrasting chartreuse remains at the base. It might be my favorite lettuce.

I sent assorted salad materials and several bags of lettuce with my son who craves them as I do.

Baby leaf rainbow chard grown as “cut and come again” adds color to salads and omelets.

The very tiny center of an undersized red cabbage caught my fancy in late afternoon light.

My sister was visiting from Oregon last week, where the garden is a distant memory. I searched and found some beets for dinner.

Sunday’s church bouquet continues the colors of the previous images. Grevillea ‘Robyn Gordon’ blooms year-round here at the coast and is a manageable 5x5x2 foot shrub. ‘Moonlight’ grevillea is another worthy, though larger selection.

To see what other gardener bloggers are gathering in, head over to Harvest Monday hosted by Dave at Our Happy Acres. Happy to have Harvest Monday up and running for 2020. If you want to see what’s been happening in my winter garden see previous Monday posts.