[FarmerShawn]

I almost always grow a variety I'm not sure of for three years, to account for variations in conditions. If I disliked it or it didn't do well all three, it's off the list forever. Wes is a variety I have loved each year I've grown it, and I add my vote to Prue as a perennial favorite. Every year I am on the fence about Cherokee Purple. About one in three years it is sublime. The others it either doesn't grow well, or has no flavor at all. But oh! Those good years! There's a fellow vendor at my market who can't eat arugula. One bite, and he says his mouth goes numb, and he can't taste anything! His wife, an otherwise delightful lady, is a cilantro soap taster.