...2.6...Friday Update...

...I thought y'all might like to know how the unprotected winter garden fared during last weeks extremely cold weather (I know it's not extreme by North Dakota/Alaska standards)...well...I pulled up all of damaged lettuce...after I'd plucked off all of the wilted leaves...

...about five of these larger buttercrunch lettuce plants survived...so I left them for future harvests...

...and oddly the entire bed of baby lettuce beide the larger ones survived with no adverse effects at all...wouldn't you have thought it would have been the other way around...

...the Napa cabbage also suffered quite a bit of damage...so I pulled off those frostbitten leaves and just composted them as they don't look redeemable at all...I'm also leaving the two worst damaged plants in the center...just to see if they will survive...

...then I picked enough crisp lettuce leaves for a salad...

...and thoroughly washed the wilted ones...because...

...well...remembering that I had made cooked lettuce in the Julia Child Project...I cooked them like greens on the Griddler...the Man said he didn't want to try it (haha)...but I mixed some soy sauce and chili sauce and made a kind of Asian sauce and it was actually pretty good over the somewhat bitter lettuce greens...

~Have a lovely day!