That's quite a list. The arugula and claytonia--miner's lettuce--both dropped seed last spring, so I won't need to plant them. I have raised mizuna before but won't again. And I am glad you mentioned cress. I love it and need to plant that too. And I laughed when I read that you planted buckshorn plantain. It absolutely took over a 5 acre pasture at my dad's a few years ago and he hired someone to spray it. I saw a post about salad turnip, a sweet, white one that is usually eaten raw. I think I will try that too.

My plantain is growing in pots. You would expect it to be grassy tasting, but I didn't find it to be. I have a short row of salad turnips coming up. They didn't live last year, but seem to be doing okay this year. I am way behind last year, I had foot tall collards and kale this time last year.

Kale? Do y'all eat kale. I do love kale. Collards too, though they seem to be pest magnets. I'm still bogged down in the kitchen renovation so haven't even thought about planting anything yet, but our nights also are not as cool yet as yours are, Dorothy. I usually do plant cress too.

Amy, You're not really behind. It's the weather that is behind as the heat outstayed its welcome. It stayed hot too late in September to plant very much cool-season stuff, so you're right in tune with the weather. Hopefully the heat finally has broken for good and now anyone can plant any cool-season plants that they wish to plant.

Dawn

The temperature ramped up to 96 in there today. Maybe I jumped the gun.

Amy, pray tell, what you going to do with all those greens?

Ha ha ha Cochise! In 2014 I noticed we ate a lot of lettuce and collards. So last year I planted all those greens to see what else we liked. There was also a warm weather list, which is harder here. The purple ones above are for a bed that will be all purple/red plants. I don't much care if I eat them, but it would be a plus if I liked them. I've got seedlings for WAY too many plants and I've been asking myself the same thing. I don't want to preserve them, this is an effort to eat seasonally. I guess some cultures pickle them, but I've not tried that. Most can be eaten young in salads. DH likes collard style (cooked with ham) and most of them can be cooked that way. We have a soup recipe that uses kale. I have a recipe where you throw whatever greens you've got in the crock pot with onion, garlic broth and a ham hock. Stir fries would be a go to choice. You can saute them with ginger and garlic sauce, Most can be substituted for spinach in any recipe that uses spinach. My plan is to make green smoothies. You can dry them, grind to powder and add to soups and other recipes. BTW, if you find greens too bitter, blanch them first. Will we eat that many, probably not. The chickens will eat what we don't.