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i got to the garden about seven thirty this morning and the first thing i did was to connect the hose and water all the planted beds...

that accomplished i went to work on the asparagus bed...everything there seems to be doing well...nothing unusual going on...no real need for intervention...so i hoed the bed to disrupt the "weeds"...

then i "hilled" the volunteer potatoes there with compost and wandered down the row to my bed...

where, as expected, i found a cohort of newly risen jerusalem artichokes...they are sparser now but still relentless...i removed them as well as i could without disturbing any corn seedlings...this will go on a while...

i had come prepared to replace any casualties with more corn seed i had soaked in water overnight...this proved unnecessary as all the seeds i planted nine days ago have germinated...some of the plants are even to the point of producing a third leaf...

once again watering the corn had washed away part of the hill exposing the nascent roots and the germ of the seed still feeding the seedling...

so i covered them back up and buttressed the hill with more compost in hopes of keeping them in place until they are more deeply rooted and able to stand on their own...

beyond the jerusalem artichokes i did not find anything much in the way of invasive plants in the bed ( although i did find another volunteer spud back up under the alfalfa ) so i hoed the bed to loosen and aerate the soil...there is rain in the forecast fro wednesday so i may not be making another run out mid week..then again i may just be curious to see what's up.