Edit to save @[email protected] sanity.
This berry is the first decent sized one from some plants that were on their death bed at a big box store a couple weeks ago. I brought them home and dropped them into my setup to see how they'd do, and clearly they're enjoying things. It was exceptionally sweet.
I was driving myself crazy trying to figure out what the berry was until I clicked the post!
Beautiful as always, such lovely lettuces and mint?
lovely lettuces and mint?
Some head lettuce and leaf lettuce. Iceberg, lambs lettuce, black seeded simpson, red leaf, green leaf, and a couple I'm forgetting at the moment. I try to rotate at least a few of the varieties every time I replant.
The mint is Apple Mint I picked up from a local store this year and added to my torture chambers. It's much easier to contain when it's in a jar but the flip side is the damn thing drinks like a sailor and as you can see CAN'T STAY IN ITS OWN DAMN SPACE. It drinks upwards of 2L a week even with constant trimming for teas and whatnot. I actually let it run dry for a couple days because I've been unusually busy but it's doing just fine still.
One of my regrets this season is not grabbing a bunch of mint plants the day I found them. Apple mint, strawberry mint, pineapple mint, etc. The store was calling them 'mint fruit salad' and each one has a very unique smell, some closer to the namesake than others but all very different from the more common varieties I'm used to. Rumor has it there's a nursery in town with a few of them but I haven't been there yet to check. Someday.