My cole crops are still in the flats I have just begun putting them outdoors during the day. So far nothing has bothered my chinese cabbage Michilili and Kubota , or my broc Packman. I have a few brussels sprouts too, but didn't make a note of the variety-dumb, dumb.

Do you suppose it was because the Jade Cross was too crowded? I have noticed both in the garden and in flats that when little plants are too crowded that they seem to attract more insects. Evidently the plants put out stress chemicals that attract the pests. Just a guess.

Hope they work for you. We got 2&1/2 in. rain last night and if my cole crops were just a little bit bigger I would put them out, but I am going to give them another week to harden off.

Dorothy, I grew mine outside and they haven't been covered. I started them in the shade and gradually moved them out so they get morning and early afternoon sun. The container wasn't very crowded because I just had a few seeds left from a previous year. The containers on either side of it had many more plants although I have already removed some. Maybe they just tasted better. LOL

I am going to try to dig out my row covers today so I can have them ready for transplant day. I did put a few cabbage plants in the ground, although they were quite small, because I had empty places in a row. I don't need much cabbage, so if they don't make it, I won't worry about it. But the broccoli and brussel sprouts......those I will try to protect. I have already become verbally abusive to a cat who crawled up on the table and was walking across the trays. I might have been more than verbally abusive, if I hadn't had far too many plants.

I bought Chinese cabbage seeds which I thought I would make a little hoop house for, but I haven't started those plants yet. Hope I get it done before it is too late.

Two and a half inches, WOW. We got showers in the early evening then again in the night, but it was barely enough to cover the bottom of the rainguage. Mesonet registered it at .03 at Jay. I had to water yesterday, but it started to sprinkle before I finished doing one part so I turned it off. I will probably have to deep water that area later today since I don't see any evidence of rain today. I was watching radar yesterday and it stayed over your area for quite awhile, so I thought you were probably getting a good rain. It's funny how we not only watch our own weather, but we monitor for our GardenWeb friends too.