Jon, I stumbled across this video about "regrowing" plants from kitchen scraps. I've often times trimmed things in the garden and kept the base producing, but this gives ideas about some of the stuff destined for the compost. And I've bought the rooted butterhead (Boston) lettuce and kept them going and gotten more leaves from them. Have you done any of this in your garden? (I suspect anyone who has had a compost bin has done what I have - had things regrow right there along the side of the bin, or seeds sprout and produce delicious cantaloupe, etc.)