Fungus?

This odd orange stuff started showing up on the my newspaper pots. It's also on the dirt around some of my plants. I suspect it might be a fungus. `

Awash in green

Watermelon, sunflowers, cosmos, petunias, pansies, corn, marigolds, basil, tomatoes, hollyhocks, morning glories, zebrina malva, english daisy, and wildflower mixes. All of those plants have sprouted for me in my winter sown containers.

Corn (two kinds), which most farmers don't have in the ground yet, sprouted in paper pots in a baggie. Their little green tips are poking up above the dirt. I have another stalk in a plastic water bottle (that I started earlier then the ones in the paper pots) that has a few true leaves and really needs to be transplanted soon.

I've transplanted a few of the sunflowers last week, and need to transplant a few more today.

I need to do something with the cosmos soon too, though they still look reasonably happy in the pots they are in now. I just want to get them off the deck, since it's getting increasingly crowded out there as I continue to add to my collection of sown seeds.

Last night I sowed chinese lanterns, lavatera, larkspur, and petunias. Earlier in the week I sowed a few more cosmos and hollyhocks.

The Cascadia peas I grew inside on a windowsill are now out in the garden, along with the pole bean plant. I directly sowed another dozen (more I think) pea seeds beside the transplanted plants so I can see which fares better, and produces more peas.
I;m transplanting the Fortune peas today, into a different part of the yard.

Speaking of transplanting, I've dug up the yard for two more beds, one of which we are thinking of turning into a raised bed. I like the idea of a raised bed there but I don't know when we are going to find the time to build it.

I took pictures of my seedlings the other day. Today, if I remember to and get around to it, I'm going to get some "before" shots of the yard. I'll try to post the pictures soon.