It would, I grant you, have been easier to buy the arugula by the bag. Nowhere near enough. Another pot, followed by a mix of radicchio, endive, mizuna and Batavian lettuce. Are mixed greens better than romaine. Assaulting the rubble, I never made it 2 feet deep. How to get your garden growing. Soon this bed would be covered with dewy heads of lettuce, arugula, radicchio and endive. Composted redwood shavings from a garden supply place came next, and chicken manure. Next section: Swiss chard, a vegetable whose stalks remind me of asparagus, and leaves of spinach. I swear solemnly to them that I will routinely weed to keep the Bermuda grass at bay.
In the next stretch of newly tilled earth, broccoli raab -- those strong-flavored trim-line florets the chefs serve with lemon, olive oil, garlic and chile peppers. The only suitable patch of yard left had the soil condition of an unloved schoolyard: an evil mix of old rubble, hard, dry clay and a tangle of Bermuda grass roots. Mix of lettuces and other greens crossword clue 1. These were usually the good-for-you foods: kale, spinach, cabbage. First in, the arugula, which I interspersed with a new, lovely, pale nasturtium, Vanilla Berry. Yo, courtier, pass the beer.
Like so many Angelenos, I come from somewhere else, a place where summer is followed by fall. What two greens go together. It feels a little greedy, but I could do a jig that I live in a place where you can plant salad greens in autumn. As I transformed myself into a one-woman chain gang, I didn't think of salad. Both are peppery, the arugula for salad, the nasturtiums to use whole or diced as slightly hot and vivid garnishes. Mostly I cursed my refusal to use Roundup or other herbicides.
A pick swung harder, maybe 2 inches. Here are some sources for a starter salad garden: Renee's Garden "California Spicy Greens" seed mix with arugula, mizuna and endive is available from Orchard Supply Hardware and leading Southern Californian garden centers for $2. Another corner, another pot, and a sack of papalo seeds -- a gift from a Mexican gardener who tends a plot in a nearby community garden, and who introduced me to the thrilling herbs papalo and pepicha. Compost made from recycled grass clippings is given away by the county at four sites: Central Los Angeles (2649 E. Washington Blvd., open 9 a. m. to 5 p. ); San Pedro (1400 Gaffey St., at entrance of Harbor District Refuse Yard, open 24 hours); Northridge (at Wilbur Avenue and Parthenia Street, open 24 hours); and Lakeview Terrace (11950 Lopez Canyon Road, open 7 a. to dusk). By contrast, a shovel driven hard into my "lawn" went in maybe an inch. I dimly realize that it will take more springs, first and second, to figure out what I can grow and what I will lose to my particular combination of pets and pests. In fact, the health of any plant isn't the result of fertilizer or even seed type. As the seedlings appear, I find myself rushing out each morning to water them. Then I remembered why I don't and won't. Or at least it is when it comes to growing vegetables. Three colors: red, yellow and white. Nothing is more important in promoting growth, preventing disease and ensuring that water reaches but doesn't drown the roots of plants. It's soil condition.
Those products might kill Bermuda grass, but they don't stop at weeds. I edged the bed with pieces of concrete to discourage encroaching Bermuda grass, and began marking out my salad zones. It's taken four years to realize that I've moved to a place where summer is followed by spring. Once I realized that these too were perfect candidates for Southern California's second spring, there was only one thing left to do: tear up a good chunk of lawn out back and put in a salad garden. The chicken manure will add nitrogen to the soil. Once I'd dug in all those fragrant improvers, I felt less like Prince Charles, or Alice Waters, and more like a walking advertisement for Band-Aids, Neosporin and mentholated muscle rubs. The first clue was that the lettuces at farmers markets somehow contrived to get lusher, frillier, more tender every autumn. After disappearing from summer glare, dandelions returned to my lawn in September.
Riddle: What has roots that no one sees and looms much taller than trees? Loves to fall but cannot climb. She plunges him underwater for several minutes, then hangs him. This is one classic gory and horror film that's surely on the must-watch list of any horror movie lover. But it also takes effort.
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