A (Very) Fresh Salad

We have a patch of various types of lettuce in the garden.  They are absolutely perfect right now and each night we've been enjoying a bowl of fresh salad with our meal.  We have a number of varieties in the garden, including Black Seeded Simpson, Oak Leaf, Lollo Rossa, Red Romaine, Rocky Top Mix and Red Wing Mix.

It is fun to go out and pick different types and make up a gourmet salad bowl with various lettuces freshly picked.

On some days, you can catch it just after a rain and pick it.  This saves a little time because then you don't even have to wash it.  The rainwater is beaded up on the lettuce leaves.  Clean. Fresh. Delicious.  The lettuce this year are thick, lush, and healthy.

Here are a few of the different types of lettuce below.  It is cool outside and the lettuce is young, so there is no bitterness at all.  We like to pick different types and mix them all up.

Before we show you the finished salad bowl, I'll show you something we like to put on top of the salad that kicks the salad up a notch or two.  Olive Salad Mix.  This is the stuff that is on muffulettas.  It is delicious on a salad, too.  It has olive oil, olives, cauliflower, sweet peppers, jalapenos, carrots, and celery in it.

And here is the finished product.  We also added some cut up fresh radish and fresh zucchini on top.

We'll have salad for as long as we want to eat it.  As long as it is not a hard freeze, it'll be okay.  I've covered it with a tarp in the last couple of light freezes, it they haven't been phased at all.