There are some other greens and lettuces that you could try using as edging or borders in the spring and then eat or pull up (remember, those “flowering cabbages” they plant are just cabbages!) Also I researched last year and found out that all parts of the daylilly are edible, although I wasn’t brave enough to try it!

There is also a very pretty type of bean-scarlet runner bean-that a lot of folks plant as a climbing vine just to cover trellises or to mask ugly things like propane tanks etc, but the beans are very tasty too! The beans themselves are green-it is the prolific little flowers that are a very pretty scarlet. The beans can also be left on the vine to dry and then used as a dry bean like pinto beans or kidney beans.