The fall lettuce is at it's peak, flouting chartreuse, dimpled leaves and red ruffles. It is so easy to pick the large outer leaves of each plant to make a huge salad of diverse colors and textures. Picked this way, the plants keep growing, and most are ready for another picking in only 2 or 3 days. The salads are tender and sweet, just how I like them. One of the dogs, Jo, reaches in and munches off a few leaves each time she passes the garden. It is a riot, and so difficult to smile and scold at the same time.
