My Chicago Garden

First thing to be harvested this year is something new for me. Lettuce was on the menu for dinner tonight! Our family doesn’t eat much salad at home, yet we like eating salad when going out for dinner. Doesn’t make much sense, but we do. I took some cuttings from the various lettuce (still in baby stage) and made a salad of lettuce, feta cheese and dried cranberries in a strawberry balsamic vinaigrette. Very yummy. The rest of the garden is doing well except for the second set of cucumbers I’ve planted out. The first set died due to a later than average frost and this replacement set are also probably damaged beyond recovery from the later winter/early spring low temperatures. I’m having to recover the potatoes with dirt practically every day. I’ll have to switch to straw here in about a week as they will have out grown the “hilling” of dirt available.