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Things are getting heavier now…

• 2 bunches of mixed beets with greens
  
• 2 heads of cabbage (I chose medium-small green cabbage over Napa or the frilly cabbage)
  
• 10 summer squashes/zucchinis (I chose a mix)
  
• 12 pickling cucumbers (I chose smaller ones; I think the big ones get a bit bitter, and the seeds too large for my preference)
  
• 2 bunches of dill
  
• 1 pound of basil
  
• 8 heads of young (uncured) garlic
  
• 2 pounds of mixed young lettuce leaves (gorgeous, but 2 pounds is more than I’ll get through, so I swapped 1 pound for another 4 heads of garlic)
  
• 8 baby bok choy (I think they’re Shanghai bok choy, because the stems are light green; I chose small ones because really, 8 is plenty)

First thoughts: stir-fried bok choy with garlic, scapes, scallions, some type of mushroom, and tofu. All the green salads. Dilly cucumber salad. Sauted beet greens with lemons and walnuts. Asian-ish cabbage slaw with lime-miso-sesame oil dressing, plus cashews/peanuts, scallions. Roasted beets. Roasted summer squash. Dilly pickles. Pureed basil stored in the fridge under olive oil for later use.

• 2 big heads of Napa cabbage
  
• 2 big bunches of green curly kale
  
• 2 bunches of French breakfast radishes with their greens
  
• 2 bunches of scallions
  
• 8 heads of green garlic (no stalks)
  
• 2 medium bags of mixed salad greens
  
• 4 fennel
  
• 6 zucchini/summer squashes (I chose large-ish ones, which were all zucchini, one golden)
  
• 2 bunches of cilantro (swapped for more fennel and zucchini)
  
• ”as much as you like” garlic scapes; I grabbed a small bag of them

First thoughts: roasted zucchini and fennel (perhaps with onion and lemon), topped with salmon towards the end of roasting. Fennel-zucchini-lemon relish, riffed from Food in Jars. Fennel-orange salad with salty olives. Stir fried Napa with scallions, garlic/scapes, ginger, soy sauce, sesame seeds, and tofu. Ferment some Napa with garlic/scapes and scallions (sort of a not-as-spicy kimchi?). Kale salad with lemon-tahini dressing and sunflower seeds. Mashed potatoes with massaged kale. Salted radish on buttered bread as a snack? Some radishes, scapes, garlic, and kale stems as mixed pickle?