i hadn't been out to the community garden for some time so when the time became available this morning i went out to see what was what...and i saw pretty much what i expected which was snow...
i did find a few other noteworthy things...some of the tomatoes that were still on the vine last time i was out there have been freeze-dried...
and this one, for lack of better terminology, has shattered and dumped its seeds...there will be volunteer tomatoes soon enough if the bed is left to its own devices ( unlikely given that gardening is wholesale human intervention...still..one or two may sneak through a spring weeding )...
it has been a bit warmer and sunnier the past few days and the black fabric i used to cover the mulch on the asparagus bed is showing through as solar energy warms the fabric and has begun to melt off the snow...that will all be coming off next month as the early season begins...
despite all the intervention that has gone on in the beds i still ran across what can only be termed a "non-food" plant...plants abhor empty space and colonize it quickly...i suspect we will be seeing more carolina horse nettle in a month or two...what i removed from the garden was very deeply rooted...it is a perennial nightshade...kin of the potatoes and tomatoes we have seen out there..it can thrive where they do despite being a true non-native...i have a penchant for growing native perennials myself, however, this coming season i do believe i will be culling out the jerusalem artichokes from my bed and putting in some more "traditional" garden plants ( oh i may sneak in a few oddballs...i am me after all ) which fit into an organized concept of a "garden"...the back yard is another matter...the experimentation is coming home.
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