If you planted a garden early in the spring then you too are enjoying the first of your bounty. I have been serving very larger salads with tender leaf-lettuce, baby spinach, kale and radishes. A supply of fresh herbs are also enhancing my cooking. Snow and snap peas are just showing themselves and will be ready for picking by the end of the week. A picking tip in the hot weather is to take a bowl of cold water out to your garden and place your just picked vegetables directly into the cold water until indoors. This will keep them fresh and crisp and free from wilting.