First salad!

Here is our first salad from the Aerogarden! We decided to keep it plain, no tomatoes or cucumbers or other things to take away from the flavor of the lettuce. We used a new salad dressing we bought at Marshall's which is a Pear Champagne vinaigrette, light in flavor but very good and the perfect accompaniment to the delicate, cut fresh and brought right to the table lettuce leaves. There is just nothing like the taste of lettuce leaves from your own garden that you cut moments before eating. We grow it in the outside garden some years but the birds love to dive bomb it, the squirrels dig it up and when we cover it the aphids like to munch on it. The season seems so short, before you know it it's bolted, and it's a lot of effort for a few lettuce leaves. Being able to do it inside like this is great! Makes me wish I had two, one for lettuce and one for herbs (you aren't supposed to grow them together because they have different light and nutritional needs but maybe I'll give it a try sometime and see if it's really so bad). What I really want to grow in it in the summer is green beans. We've given up on growing them here as the Japanese beetles massacred them last time (we got maybe three pathetic beans).