Yum

Finally, my first 100-foot diet meal from my little apartment balcony. [Sorry, no pic -- still can't upload from my camera to the computer, dammit.]

• homegrown, organic salad greens
• local, organic cilantro
• organic, homecooked chickpeas
• local, organic lemon juice
• organic olive oil
• toasted, organic sesame seeds

Dee-licious.

To be honest, I was surprised at how good it was compared to the packaged Trader Joe’s organic herb salad I love. This was just as good, if not better. The seeds were the mesclun salad mix from Southern Exposure, planted in an Earthbox — which means it’s an $80+ salad so far, but that will go down over time.

Also, I’m getting the stuff together to make my own self-watering containers [pdf file] from now on. I’m going to start growing as many sweet potatoes as I can squeeze onto the balcony because a] I love sweet potatoes and b] sweet potatoes love hot weather, which is what we’re looking at for the next few months, especially on my west-facing balcony. I’ve already collected half a dozen 5-gallon buckets for free from the market. Now, I just need some pipe or hose and a way to cut circles in plastic.

Time to head for the locally-owned hardware store!