GotGarlic
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The system that delivers fresh salad greens like clockwork to the nation's grocery stores is breaking down slightly. In about three weeks, consumers may get a reminder of two things. First, vegetables really are fragile living things, and most of them have to survive outdoors. Second, we depend to a remarkable degree on just a few places to grow them.
Due to wet weather in southern Arizona, where most of America's salad greens are grown during the winter, mildew has afflicted the plants and they have been pulled from the fields, and the market.
Meanwhile, wet weather in the Central Valley of California, where much of the summer salad greens are grown, has delayed planting.
With the weird heat we've been having, my garden salad greens are starting to bolt and become bitter. I may be looking to a local company that grows salad greens in a greenhouse hydroponically for a couple of weeks. Or see if I can find some seeds.
Sorry, Salad Lovers: We May Have No Mesclun Mix (For Two Weeks) : The Salt : NPR