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July 7, 2009

How her garden grows

EAT YOUR VEGETABLES: Maryann James posts on vegetable gardening every Tuesday.

A Garden Variety reader, Deborah in Annapolis, caught wind of the Veggie Challenge and decided to share one of her garden successes, a head of lettuce she said was "almost too pretty to eat."

(Don't worry -- she did eat it; after taking this photo, it went straight to the salad bowl.)

"Don't ask what kind of lettuce it is," she wrote. "It was in a summer lettuce mix." After some preliminary research, I would guess salad bowl, but I could be wrong. (Any more educated guesses?)

Anyone else have some lovely veggie garden photos and/or stories they're willing to share? I'll share some of my own later today.

Posted by Maryann James at 12:30 PM | Permalink | Comments (1)

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I think you're right , Mary Ann. Salad Bowl is one of the varieties listed in the Summer Lettuce Mix (from Cook's Garden seeds). It was delicious but I do miss seeing it there in the garden!

Posted by: Deborah | July 8, 2009 3:37 AM

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About Susan Reimer

Susan Reimer has spent 16 years writing about raising kids - among other topics - in her column for The Baltimore Sun. And every time son Joseph or daughter Jessie passed another milestone - driver's license, college, wedding or a move to a new military duty station - she has planted another garden. Now she will be writing about those gardens - and yours - here on Garden Variety.

Susan isn't an expert gardener, but she wasn't an expert mother, either. Both - the kids and the gardens - seem to be doing well in spite of her.

She lives in Annapolis with her husband, Gary Mihoces, who loves to cut his grass but has noticed that there seems to be less of it every time the kids pass another milestone.

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