broccoli florets - finally

  
Apparently, it does not take much to make me happy today...been yucky sick all day...did still have to go out long enough to feed the chickens, gather the eggs, and made a gander through the garden.

I am less than impressed with how the straw bales are progressing with the cabbages and broccoli. The broccoli and cabbage and kale in the raised beds are doing well. The same crops, placed at the same time in the bales are still puny. Lettuce seems to well in either. The chard in the bales is doing well also.

On another note, it seems some little squirrel or some like critter has been having fun with my radishes.

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