This was my first year veggie gardening I can hardly wait to try new varieties. Unfortunately, I haven't got much in the way of interesting, but please check my list. Package #3 for trade or SASBE please. MARY

I don't worry about foggy bags, it does not seem to hurt sales at all. That said, I never put more than 3 bags of any one type of greens out on the table. The rest stay in their coolers until I need to restock the table. Shade also helps a lot. If I'm selling at a morning market I will put a banner up on the east side of the EZUp, if it is an evening Market than it goes on the west side. By Banner I mean pre-made banners that say things like Strawberries, Locally grown, etc.. This is excellent advertising as well as shade. If you have a shelter with sides these also work well for shade, though they also block the public's view of your stall unless they are in front of it.

Great idea with the chicken wire, Bonnie. :) These days our dog keeps the cats out of the gardening space, but before we had a dog, cats used to be a problem. Nice bean salad recipe, Becky(booberry)! Looks tasty. We might try that one next time fresh beans become available. Good question about how our heirloom gardens are doing, Bonnie. :) Garden is going well. Several WinterSown things are now out in the patio. Moved some rainbow swiss chard, Osaka purple mustard, Mantovana chicory, Cicoria Catalogna Rossa, and mizuna seedlings over the weekend. Still have more things to sow, though, including 'Red Welsh' bunching onions! Should get to that today, along with removing compost from vermicompost bin and adding more scraps for worms to eat. One of the things I do with my vermicompost is use it as seed starting mix! Divided a sage plant and gave rooted offsets to a gardening pal who lives nearby; he was very happy to get them. The lemongrass and ginger really need to be divided too. A good time will be later today while my hands are still dirty from processing the worm bin. :) Harvested almost a bushel of collard greens and komatsuna greens recently. Didn't need that much, so we shared with a neighbor whose husband is unemployed. They were delighted, and surprised to see so much food from a 10'x 10' patio. :) The heirloom bok choy "Tai Sai" has a few hundred seedpods on it. Will collect and dry in a paper bag very soon, otherwise the pods will split open and scatter the seeds everywhere. Wouldn't want that to happen, LOL!! And the 'Rotonda Bianca Sfumata di Rosa' eggplant has several baby eggplants forming on it. :) Blooming outside right now are a large flowered heirloom zinnia "cut and come again", double flowered magenta Pentas, rose colored gerbera daisy, and portulaca "Giant Bicolor Radiance." Portulaca is edible but I haven't gotten up the guts to try eating it yet. Young Zinnia sprouts are edible, and I have eaten a few when thinning them out- they seem to taste similar to sunflower sprouts. :) A lightly fragrant bicolor dianthus, from seeds Medontdo sent me- bloomed last week, and we ate a bunch of its flowers as edible garnish. Left a few flowers on, in hopes of saving some seeds. If it doesn't set seed we may try to keep it going by root divisions. About the only thing in my garden that isn't looking happy lately is my water spinach (Ipomoea aquatica). Not sure why, but despite plenty of water it has gotten wilty all of a sudden. Maybe it is rootbound and needs to be divided and potted up in fresh soil. Our Vietnamese coriander (Persicaria odorata) is growing like gangbusters and needs to be pruned back. Time to make salsa and black bean soup with the trimmings! Might also experiment with drying some leaves for later. :)

Just a lurker here, but yes, Pocari Sweat is like a sports drink. Kind of that salty sweet gatorade type of drink. We used to live in Japan and I'm not much of a sports-drink-lover but DH & the kids like it! One of my favorites is called Calpis soda (if you think Pocari Sweat sounds nasty!) I really enjoy lurking here and everything I learn. Thanks everyone!