Perfect timing

Everyone knows that a bacon, lettuce, and tomato sandwich created with tomatoes still warm from the sun and crispy lettuce cut straight from the garden tastes like a little bit of heaven.  Sadly, in my corner of the world, this heavenly experience is just not possible.  The best tomatoes  ripen during the early summer and lettuce can only be grown in the fall and winter.   Because these two crops don't grow together in my backyard, I've just never bothered to grow lettuce in my fall garden.

However, I was give some lettuce seeds this summer so I just tossed them out to see what would happen.   Only three plants managed to survive my casual planting, but boy, oh boy!   I was able to harvest the first lettuce cutting and the last tomatoes on the same day.

Those BLTs were the best ones we have ever tasted at our house!  Heaven can happen on earth.