Salad Greens

Lettuce is one of the first things we can plant in our vegetable gardens in the early spring.
Lettuce thrives in cooler soil and cool weather. Once it gets hot out, lettuce bolts quickly and wilts.
There are many different varieties of lettuce plants and seeds to choose from. They also do not take up much space in the garden.
Here are a few different choices of greens to choose from.
Mild;
Spinach
Young beet and chard leaves
Young Kale leaves
Bock choy
Miner's lettuce
Tatsoi

Hot and Spicy;
"Wrinkled Crinkled Crumpled" cress
"Tendergreen" mustard greens
"Red Giant" mustard greens

Bitter;
Radicchio
Curly endive
Frisee
Italian dandelion

Distinctive tastes;
Cilantro
Sorrel
Lemon thyme
Lemon basil
Mints
Chives
Parsley
Tarragon

Petals only (for sprinkling on top of salads);
Calendula
Borage
"Lemon Gem" Marigold
Gladiola
Squash
Pea
Daylily
Bean
Nasturtium

Dark Chocolate

Cocoa is very rich in flavanals. Studies have shown that people with high blood levels of flavaniods have a lower risk of heart disease, lung cancer, prostate cancer, asthma and type 2 diabetes.
Pure cocoa powder has the highest amount of antioxidants, followed by dark chocolate, then milk chocolate.
Just one ounce of certain types of dark chocolate has more than twice the healthy antioxidants than that of red wine and other dark chocolates.
Dove Dark and Cocoa Via, both made by mars Inc., contain Cocoapro cocoa,a proprietary, specially processed cocoa with superhigh levels of flavanols- so high that Dove Dark is used in medical research.
Eating small amounts of dark chocolate is fine. Just make sure that you are already eating a overall healthy diet.

Honey is much sweeter than vinegar in all situations.