Well, we have harvestable spinich up but with rain coming the next few days I think we'll just leave it alone and let the leaves get bigger and greener...
Oh, and thanks for the descripyion of Joe's garden... He sounds like a real character... Reminds me of some of the stuff I have incorporated into our gardens... Nuthin' goes to waste... Even broken cindar blocks... They make for very good bottom fill under oue many rock retaining walls that are very much part of creating beds on the sides of hills, something that we have no shortage of...
Good luck with the mower, Maggie... Starting fluid has no shelf tife so it should still be good...