"The underside of salad..."

after reading this, you may want to get some more greens seeds and start them in the shade of your trellissed veggies or flowering vines...

from a clip out of a magazine, source unknown...emphasis mine(typos 2)

"The underside of salad

Pre-washed lettuce sold in plastic bags & ready for the salad bowl is one of the latest success stories in the ready-nade food industry. But it comes at a price. The catalogue of the hip British sustainable clothing manufacturer Howies (autumn/winter 2004/2005) offered the recipe for washed salad:

[now emphasis mine, italics theirs]

Firstly, add four pinches of insecticides. Two pinches of fungicide. And two measures of herbicide. After picking, store in conditions that reduce the oxygen from 21% to 3% and replace with the corresponding amount of CO2. This is perfect for stopping the aging process so the salad still appears fresh, but it can't stop the goodness being lost with each day that passes. Keep in this state for anything up to a month. Then take some chlorine, 50 mg per litre (quart) should do it (a measure the equivalent of 20 times the strength of your local swimming pool) and gently rinse.

Then simply bag. Ready for sale.

Supermarkets. Now wash your hands of that."

followed by AP photo of Dole bagged salads...

[i loved our fresh salads in the spring, & hope to have much more this fall... will also post in Organic Gardening forum]