This curly red monarch kale is almost black. Powerful anti-oxidants.
Adding lime to the soil prevented club root in my cabbage, brussel sprouts, turnips, rutabagas, and parsnips. 
So far, the fava beans are pest-free this year. 
Knowing we'd have a cool summer, I planted Red Runner Beans.
Leek and chicory blooms. One of the Russian ladies told me to use old lettuce leaves for tea. She said that if you scrape the leaf or stem of the plant, it seeps a milky white latex that acts like a sedative, similar to opium poppy leaves. They use this tea at bedtime.
