Eaten like this in a fresh salad, spinach goes a long way. Cooked, spinach reduces down to a mere fraction of its original volume. It takes a lot of spinach to make a meal. I hope by the end of June to be harvesting all the vegetables we need directly from the garden. Of course there are other methods of food preservation such as root cellaring that can provide food during winter without the effort required for canning.
Earwigs are relatively harmless but in lettuce they can make leaves wilt or rot.
I tried the classic methods of getting rid of earwigs including creating traps of rolled up newspaper, but the ideal conditions provided by lettuce were too appealing to the earwigs. Rather than roll out the big pesticide guns, I am going to try a few simple measures. First of all, I'm not going to use mulch around the lettuce. This should reduce earwig hiding places. Then I will use the cut and come again method of harvest, harvesting the larger lower leaves.