New Thoughts on Veggie Garden

Originally, I had planned on my brassicas being transplants. Somehow I got the idea that in Austin that is just what you did and that for some reason it wasn't good to try to plant the brassicas from seed. This morning I found a website that said broccoli transplants were actually pretty finicky and they do better from seed sown directly in the garden. In the spirit of experimentation, I'm going to do both. I will have a few transplants (one of each maybe?), but I'm also going to sow some brassica seeds directly into the raised beds. As I have found with the cover crop, seeds are so much more fun to see growing. I have another kind of cover crop seed sprouting, maybe all 5 different kinds of covercrop that I planted will grow especially since we are getting some rain on a regular basis. I also think Andrew is right that plants just want to grow and will try their hardest though like small children they may need some scaffolding. I'm not sure I need to do as much as I'm being told or reading that I need to do. The Square -Foot Gardening book by Mel Bartholomew also seems to suggest that it is not required to be so complicated to get a nice crop of veggies and other edible plants.