wheatgrass

it was wheatgrass day at the garden along with a few other chores...the top photo is the asparagus bed on the west side of the garden...it was time to backfill so i worked about forty pounds of compost ( asparagus eats alot) into the mound of soil i dug out to plant them and the second photo shows the result, as well as a bed for wheatgrass that i worked about twenty pounds of composted manure into. the third photo is of broadcast wheatgrass seeds which i covered with a thin layer of soil. the bottom photo, although you wouldn't know it, is the garden after about two hours of solid work...backfilling the rest of the asparagus so the garden dosen't look so messy and working in more organic matter for the teosinte bed. we're doing okay...all the jerusalem artichokes are up, as well as all the potatoes. we're still missing one asparagus plant and i think we've lost the runt elephant garlic...but you never know...the bulb's still down there so we'll wait awhile before we give up on it...the yam vines are growing up the stakes that mark out the rows, so i festooned them with some mason's string so they wouldn't attach themselves to the bird tape...i'm going to have to do some research as to why a perennial that is supposed to develop rhizomes three feet underground is expending so much energy above ground...tomatoes if it ever warms up and teosinte when it finally germinates. stay tuned.