iuncg asparagus bed

After i was finished with the yams at the pgp i took a walk over to the iuncg to have a look around and ponder next spring…i have already collected the seeds for the asparagus i will be planting in the back corner bed…actually i don’t think it will be direct seeding…i believe i will start the seeds indoors early in 2013 and transplant them outdoors in late march…or, perhaps, when i see the asparagus emerge in the pgp…hopefully there will be room for twelve to fifteen plants in that bed, planted along the edges to allow adequate space…I have been getting twenty-five spears from the seven plants in the pgp…if that average holds up there should be between forty-two and fifty-two spears (if)…the soil in the iuncg is over a layer of sand just like the pgp and the asparagus does well there so the plants should be happy in the community garden as well…and i can mulch the plants for winter in both gardens at the same time so it shouldn’t be much more labor…the issue will be to keep folks form harvesting until 2017 when the plants will have reached their full productivity…some sort of dire warning sign that can be ignored is seemingly in order just to absolve my responsibility to the plants…while i was there i looked for the emergent eggplant Ii found last week…but the squirrels were there first…the plants continue to bloom but they have seen better days and the chances of any more fruit (?) emerging seem pretty slim…all in all i counted thirty-one swiped eggplants there this season…quite a bonanza for the rodents…the iuncg is winding down ( still lots of green tomatoes and still some green peppers though )…looking forward to spring…more on the asparagus germination as the research is done and i start to give it a shot.