I was out walking around my garden today and noticed that my beans are all starting to come up. My corn is about 3-4 inches tall, and the beans are just poking thru the ground. I think they all came up too...all but 2 of the corn did. My squash is looking good as well. I have a couple of bell peppers sprouting on one of my plants and a couple of tomatoes have appeared. So far everything seems to be doing ok, but I'm not sure if my lettuce will make it, I think there are creatures eating it. It looks healthy enough, but the leaves seem to be getting shorter and shorter instead of longer!!!
I made a batch of compost tea the other day--my kids think that is totally gross by the way. I've learned alot from you all over the last month or so and I appreciated it and am excited--Just thought I'd share.

I get that with the lettuce. Sometimes it's slugs. I discovered though that more often it's birds using it for nesting material. One day I was sitting watching the time pass when out of nowhere a European starling swooped down and started ripping away at the lettuce. I saw that where he tore it, the leaves were all jagged. Now I know, jagged leaves = birds; brown slimy leaves = slugs. They do that with my tomatoes too, and peas, and marigolds and...