Fishy

I bought some Neptune's Harvest fish & seaweed fertilizer to try. Applied the first feeding today on almost everything in the garden (minus lettuce, spinach, tatsoi).  I'll get the spinach and tatsoi next time.  It smells like a pond full of bream out there now.  :)

I've been too busy to do much with the garden the past few weeks, but the newly planted lettuce, spinach, and beets are up. Whether or not they stay up...

The cauliflower and broccoli are doing well. I still cover the cauliflower most days so the fabric catches enough dew & rain to satisfy all watering needs.

Cauliflower with some tiny rainbow chard.

I think this broccoli plant is starting to form a head! I didn't notice at the time.

This is my best looking collard plant. Maybe it will grow more once it stays cooler...

OK for a good comparison of the raised bed vs containers... here are my two large cabbage plants in containers doing well so far, and above & below the sprinkler head are two puny raised bed cabbages. They are the same age from the same batch of transplants, watered the same, fertilized the same. The only difference I can think of is the soil.  I hate to say it, but Miracle Grow Potting Soil seems to win.  It must balance moisture retention/draining needs of the plants better, despite the "tried and true" raised bed soil recipe I saw everywhere when planning my garden.

Finally, the lettuce transplants are BEAUTIFUL, and I hope my tatsoi gets a move on.

Come on, tatsoi! Oh well, it likes cold weather.