i thought arugula on first glance, but hawksbeard is another possibility (dandelion also came to mind).
i’d just try a taste of the green leaf. if it’s nutty and only slightly bitter - arugula. if it’s bitter-bitter - weed!
we grow a lot of arugula of different varieties so that we have it almost year-round.
loves me some arugula on a ham sammy!
That was fast!
Can’t wait to see them grow 
The Tasmanian Purple peppers have pretty little flowers! I hope they taste good and aren’t too hot for me
The plant in the background is he Sweet 100. Which we tend to call the Sweet 1000. It’s already huge. 2 months ago it was less than 6 inches. This is after trimming about 4 linear feet of canes.
First ripe tomato got eaten by a bug but there will be more soon. So. Many. More. We used to have two of these a year. But then we had 1/3 of the raised bed left.
In case someone here has already hacked a cost-effective spotted lanternfly trap that is bird-friendly and non-toxic, please let me know. This one here looks solid but is $40 apiece. Yikes.
Here’s a DIY trap, and if you have used this, I’d like to hear if it worked for you:
It’s new days here, since I am only now facing this new foe.
It is now found in every county of my state. It’s here. I fully understand that I can never win this war by myself, but I would like to reduce the numbers of this invasive, damaging, voracious-with-no-natural-predators insect. Something something exponential increase something compound interest something something speed of light etc.
Thanks in advance.
I guess hawksbeard is just another name for hawksweed?
I really miss good chicory. We used to get a mix of leaves from the farmers market in Italy. It was erbe di campo, or field herbs, so wild chicory, dandelion, wild arugula/rocket, and possibly things like dock, and very possibly some others I didn’t recognize.
how exciting!
can’t wait to see what you do!
Garden Envy Intensifies
eta: mind your back, bub!
Also… I went outside today and noticed that not only do I have some little tomatoes, all of my pepper plants are peppering! Yay! I’m not a failure!
