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slow growing veggies

another appeal to all of your expertise...

this is the second year that i've been veggie gardening and i've been using
raised beds since we move alot and it's easier to set them up.  last year i got
a slow start to my veggie garden which was why i figured my lettuce crops
didn't mature until mid july (so much for spring greens!).  this year however i
got everything started in february inside, transferred to my coldframe in mid
march, then transplanted to my garden by the end of the month as the starts
were outgrowing their cell packs.  the soil mind you had been nicely warmed by
plastic groundcover, set inside a plastic tunnel.  yet i planted these starts
with 3-4 true leaves and they are just not doing anything.  at all.  same with
my spinach, mustard, beets and radishes of all things (aren't they supposed
 to mature
in a month or so?  they've been in the ground forever and are only just
developing true leaves now!).

i'm concerned as to why things are growing so slowly. i'm going to have my soil
tested, because i'm concerned now about low mineral content.  however i planted
a legume cover crop last fall and tilled it in, as well as amended the soil in
january with lots of hay (which is mostly broken down by now). i'm really at a
loss and don't know what to attribute this to.  living here in OR, with such
mild climates we're able to overwinter lettuces beautifully, but even these are
puny right now (3 in tall, about 4 leaves).

any help will be appreciated.

thyme

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