In the meantime, I've been occupying myself with other plants. I was reading about legumes replenishing the soil so I've been on a beans and peas kick. We're growing edamame, fava beans, peas, scarlet beans, snow peas, and sweet peas (I don't know if flowers count, but they're pretty).
Last weekend, I visited my family in LA. I ate lots of Chinese food, of course, and discovered a new love for A-Choy (Taiwanese lettuce) and Chinese okra (Angled luffa). A-Choy is almost like a skinny romaine lettuce, and the way it's prepared is usually sauteed with garlic. I'm not sure if I tried to cook romaine lettuce it would taste the same way, but it's possible. Chinese okra looks similar to a spiny bitter melon or cucumber. The consistency is a little slippery like regular okra, but it has more substance. It was a little hard to find the seeds because the names vary, and I was trying to make sure I was getting the right one. I found someone selling it on Ebay from Malaysia so I'm excited to grow it.