end of season soiree

went out to campus yesterday to visit with the folks from the iu northwest community garden who were having an end of season soiree…had a fine lunch and good conversation ( elements of the original epicurean philosophy as opposed to the elitist cast the term has taken on ) and met the chief of the campus police to boot…had a short discussion with Rebecca and i will be taking some of the “berries” from the asparagus plants in the pgp to establish a bed of perennials in the iuncg sometime in the next week…it will take a few years of growth before we can harvest but if we do it correctly it will produce for decades… the eggplants continue to produce as do the tomatoes and green peppers…only a killing frost will stop them…after lunch i strolled over to the pgp and found more evidence of the tenacity of annuals…the northern tepehuan teosinte has developed five more flowers and will continue to try to seed until frost does them in too…the wheat grass from Kansas on campus is doing as well as the ones in my backyard which is a good sign…dr. dehaan said that if they had two or three weeks to s=establish themselves before the temperature dropped into the twenties on a regular basis there should be no need to mulch them…i still haven’t decided on what to do…perhaps half mulch half no mulch as insurance and control? autumn is moving in on the pgp quickly…a yam harvest and a mulching party yet to come ( as soon as the asparagus gives me the high sign )and i do believe I harvested the very last of the eastern gamagrass seeds as the chlorophyll is beginning to flee the leaves…the yam vines are dying back as well…almost time to sit back and contemplate the coming season…more as it comes up.