I finally got to go out this morning and harvest a bunch of lettuce.  It looks, feels, and smells very good, but we'll find out for sure this evening when we have grilled chicken salads.  Also in the harvest was spinach.  This is my fourth time picking the spinach, and it's growing prolifically now, and the leaves are getting quite large.  I also planted a row of both lettuce and spinach about a month after the first planting, so pretty soon, I'll cut the old plants down and let the new ones finish out the cool season.

My zucchini has a few buds already, so I expect to be bringing some of those in soon as well.  I have a few peas that were already producing pods, but I had a problem with aphids sucking the life out of the plants.  I got some spray that killed them, but went ahead and pulled the peas that were on the plant and composted them (didn't want to eat the insecticide) so that the plants could hopefully get back to living again.  The problem that these aphids cause is called chlorosis, and it basically amounts to the plant losing chlorophyl needed to be green and healthy, so it turns yellow and dies.  I've also had a problem with some kinda worm eating at my broccoli, spinach, cucumber, and tomato leaves -- and a dog that has trampled my beds.  I gotta finish that fence!

Pretty soon, I'll have the fence finished, and I'll post some pics of the whole garden.  Until then, here is the lettuce and spinach from this morning.

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