There is little more satisfying that creating a salad using freshly harvested lettuce. This is a red butterhead called Edox. Mashed Potatoes is a light-coloured acorn squash with white flesh that, cooked and fluffed, is an interesting alternative to potatoes similarly prepared. Helen Chesnut Wait until after they have bloomed to prune lilac and other late-spring flowering shrubs. Helen Chesnut photos I’m not much given to navel- gazing angst, but I must admit that the bout of cold, snowy weather last month reminded me how much I rely on time in the garden to maintain a sense of mental and physical well-being.