My beautiful huli are kept company by the baby butter lettuce - just four weeks old, from seed!
Why do tomato plants have such hairy legs? The little hairs are individual cells which contain toxins (proteinase inhibitors) that guard against insects who might find the plant delicious looking. In fact, the entire plant is toxic except for the actual tomato, which explains why the tomatoes are the only things which get eaten by the critters. My next goal is to look even closer at these very interesting "hairs" with the microscope. Stay tuned for those photos!
This guy did more work than I did today.
From garden to table! 
A delicious feast of fresh picked mixed salad greens tossed with mint, julienne beets, daikon and carrots and topped with tarrogon flowers. Beautiful and nutritious. 
Nice pictures this week. The drop on the blue leaf is amazing. The salad seemed delicious. I can't wait to see and smell the garden for real.
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