Lettuce
One of the easiest crops to grow on the coast.

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It's mid-May, this bed of lettuce is maybe good for one more harvest before the plants are composted. The lettuce was fed with fish emulsion after each cutting. At the store they want over $4 a pound for 'Spring Blend Leaf Lettuce' and it's several days old.
After this bed is rebuilt we'll plant squash here. Behind the photographer is a brand new lettuce bed which has already been harvested several times.

Here's a batch grown in a barrel. They're also at their last cutting, starting to get a little bitter. This is a blend of mostly red leaf lettuces and they're much too warm for their liking. In the early summer the soil in a barrel is difficult to keep moist and the plants suffer. This spot would be better for some marigolds.
That's garlic in the upper left corner, not corn.

There aren't any pictures of the summer lettuce yet, but they're grown the same way, except they could use a little cool shade. Lettuce doesn't 'bolt' (go to seed) because it's summer, it's because they're an annual and have a short growing season. Higher temperatures speed up their life cycle.