As the season turns, from summer into actual summer fall, it comes time to plant more cabbage family crops. I have my nice bok choy, which despite my best efforts of spraying them and setting slug bait, are becoming well nibbled.
*sigh*
One must pay the pest tax to garden.
ANYWAYS.
Look, I don’t have the room/time/patience to painstakingly make my own compost. So I buy, sue me. It’s good stuff! After sifting through the remains of the last bed, I added a bag of the good stuff and mixed it in. I kept some of the old shredded redwood, it helps the bed drain.
Then it was time to plant my little darlings.
And time to swaddle them in mulch as a hedge against the 80 degree temperatures we keep getting.
80 degree temps *and* rain in the morning whoo hoo San Francisco!
But what, you ask, are these little darlings?
Brussels’s sprouts!
My second favorite brassica, and one I’ve never grown before!
I’m terrified!
But they look nice, and with the exception of my cursed experience with turnips, I’m good with the brassicas.
I hear they look like spaceships when they get tall!
Oh and I planted some spinach.
In literally the shadiest part of the garden, and I still expect half of it will bolt by October.
Or fall prey to the pests.
Spinach keeps breaking my heart, but I keep answering it’s siren song.
Time to buy more sluggo!
The Neanderthal Gardens 
Brussels sprouts?! Well, I suppose you could grow them better than I could do here. I have not tried them, although I do remember how well they grew in Montara.