Great Job gOOOn! Two questions. 1. Were the cukes fully ripe? 2. My tap (well) water measures 119 ppm. Some commercial nutrients claim to be specially formulated for water over 200 ppm. Couldn't your 311-315 ppm water have something in it that may have contributed to the metallic flavor? It just seems strange to me that the nutrients you have been using would cause this. But then again what do I know, I've never tasted that particular variety. It's seems a shame to have something grow that well and not be edible. ~Ken~

Tex attacked those G. Salvia's and got them well disciplined and law abiding. I've got some new ones where stems had rooted, I cut the umbilical branches and those will be handy when I take out the too-big-grass-that-you-can't-walk-by-in-summer-because-it-blocks-the-path to create a continuous row along the east side fence. Gregg S. is one of those cheap plants you can use in all kinds of neglected or difficult situations. They even bloom in shade and maintain a decent form. I didn't know gardeners were supposed to be nice, I thought we were supposed to be hard-bitten Salt of the Earth types who are pragmatic and blunt. Personally, I think 'nice' is overrated and downright boring when nice is all you get. I'll add a bit of sarcasm: Mara, you are going to have to come up with a more impressive "sacrificial" act than throwing away a Native American Seed catalog---come on! That is not an act of discipline or sacrifice. The hard part is yet to come. Temptations are passing by a nursery or seeing a great plant sale with either great prices or fabulously tempting plants or just looking outside on a perfect day, seeing the horrendous mess crying out for cleaning and not succumbing to weakness.

Yes, pure compost is rarely recommended for planting seeds or even starter plants and for more reasons than just the weed potential. You really want a mineral based soil....like garden soil (with some organic amendments) or an appropriate bagged raised bed soil.

I grow early and summer mizuna. About 6 can go into a 18 gallon tote. They have fairly shallow root systems, so the depth isn't absolutely necessary. But 6 of them can fill up the elbow room of the tote pretty well, those are around 24x18 rectangle of surface space. A 16" 10 gallon pot has about half the surface space, so maybe 3 per 10 gallon pot. Or do one each in the 3 gallon pots. You will have to watch the watering more with those. Greens like their water. I haven't grown chjimisai. I have a smaller tatsoi in the garden, can't remember the variety. But looking at Baker Creek it looks like they might be similar to size like mizuna. I tend to remove back the biggest/oldest leaves most of the time, and let the younger greens grow out more.