potatoes

i have been to the garden and we have progress...the top photo is taken from the west side and shows the bed for teosinte and wheatgrass after i turned in eighty pounds of compost and forty pounds of composted manure...i will be seeding the wheatgrass when it gets a bit warmer and will put in the teosinte as it germinates and gets big enough to harden off and transplant. the elephant garlic plant that was yellow because it came up under the mulch has recovered after a week of sunlight...the one that didn't get out of the mulch is still a bit of a runt...we'll see how it does over the next few weeks...the stems are still so tall that i hilled the garlic more just for support... no sign of the yams or the jerusalem artichokes or the gamagrass yet, but it's only april...i'll be more concerned if i don't see them by next month...i planted nine red nordland potato plants ( this isn't a big garden...i will be planting the excess plants in my yard..so...two gardens this year)they are early starters and should be ready by july...i am seriously thinking of aquiring some that start later to see if we can get two crops of potatoes...after all this is about using perennials as staples as much as anything else...the bottom photo is the arugula which is up...so is the spinach, but the uploader for this takes forever so i only put the arugula up...everything survived the rain and hail this week, and there was no need to water this time around...i do believe i will start making a mid-week trip to the garden after work beginning on the fourteenth of this month just to be looking in on things a bit more often...we are starting to be busy and i want to be more in tune with what's going on.