Plants I'm growing (and rain): Last peppers of the year

Winter approaches. Yesterday I picked what will likely be the last of the peppers from the garden this year – shishito, jalapeño, and poblano peppers. That said, winters are mild here. Yesterday I also planted two kinds of spinach, three kinds of lettuce, arugula, mustard greens, and mini turnips. Obligingly the skies dropped 1.30 inches of rain overnight. That brings the total so far in the 2025-2026 rain year to about 3.20 inches at my location.

Plants I'm Growing: Summer vegetables

Things are beginning to pick up in the garden. Recently harvested zucchini, yellow squash, Japanese cucumbers, slicing cucumbers, lemon cucumbers, lettuce, and garlic. Soon tomatoes will start coming and eggplants are coming along, too.

Art I'm Looking At: Found Art--Lettuce (March 25, 2010)

A spiraling head of Romaine lettuce in the vegetable garden has sprouted up through the middle of a clump of frisée--dead center--making a temporary green sculpture, characterized by intriguing invaginations.