A busy day in the veggie patch

We had great weather today so I headed out to get things done in the garden. I accomplished the following:

• finished installing the top two raised beds
• screened the finished compost
• moved the cold frame as it is where the brassica's will be planted
  
• cleared the existing raised beds
• amended the raised beds with blood & bone meal and compost.
  
• planted out the romaine that was winter sown

Here are a series of photos I took well amending the raised beds:

Cleared, turned & raked soil

Compost flying in. Applied at a rate of 1" on all the beds.

More compost on the lower beds.

I then applied a good dusting of Blood & Bone meal.

The amendments were scratched into the soil and then
I light tamped everything in place.

After all that amending I just couldn't resist planting something. I choose to risk the romaine lettuce that was winter sown in early February. I think the weather is fair enough now that they should do fine. Any time below freezing temperatures are forcasted over night I will make sure to cover them with row cover. I can taste the salads already!

Earlier on I thinned the romaine to three plants per cell.
I then cut them all apart to have a total of 12 romaine
plants to plant out.

They are planted right against the foundation that faces
south. This wall alone should hold enough heat the get
them through any cold spells.

That's all for this post. My next post will be on my composting system and the new compost screen I just built. Is there anything better then finished compost? Its like gardeners crack cocaine.