Drunken Woman Frizzy Headed...... Lettuce

Yes the butter-head lettuce seeds are actually named...Drunken Woman Frizzy Headed Lettuce  (Territorial Seed Company).  I harvested the first tonight and boy is it tender and sweet.  The leaves are a beautiful pale green and some have a slight hint of ruby on the edges.  But so sweet!!  Although a butter-head lettuce, they are actually more of a loose leaf lettuce.  They braved it through the cold and June first hail storm... and we are eating them on June 20!!


Off to the dirt!!!

Blooms are a beautiful thing

Tomato blooms, that is.  Each day there are more and more of these beautiful little yellow flowers on the tomatoes.  I know that after the fertilization of the flower, fruit starts to grow!!  However, a problem is becoming apparent.  I have not seen any bees in the last few weeks.  I know that my growing garden needs these  little kings of the garden in order for the beautiful flowers to turn into something edible. 

When we had 2 days of spring in March, I marveled at the buzzing all over the garden.  They were everywhere.  However, as we are now actually in summer, not a buzz to be heard.  Although we have a yard full of lavender, rosemary and flowering thyme, not a bee to be seen.  This weekend I added a  large yellow yarrow near some of the new raised beds hoping to draw bees to that area of the yard.  I need to do more research on what will be a draw to the bees.

Off to bed...then in the morning, off to the dirt!