there is always movement...even if it is imperceptible...it is hard to miss right now as the season accelerates...the asparagus in the east bed has begun to "fern"...this is only its third season so there will be no harvesting, just growth...gardening is an exercise in patients...no asparagus until 2020...
a bit farther over in the same bed a stolon from one of the imported wild strawberry plants has touched gtound...the stolon hasn't stopped ther and is clearly moving on...
where the stolon touched ground roots have begun to set...feeding the leaves above...a daughter is being born...
one bed over the spuds i planted to keep the rhubarb company are popping up regularly...fifteen out of the thirty-three so far...
one more bed tot he west finds all five varieties of spring wheat green and flourishing...along with some friendly ( and, seemingly, ubiquitous ) lamb's quarters...it's okay..they are edible, not "weeds"...and the wheat won't mind the company...
a few feet further over, outside the wheat bed, the other grain crop is beginning to more clearly evince ears of rye...
the ramps on the north side are looking robust and i am hoping for some to flower and produce seed this season...i had a bumper crop of seed last year. some of which i spread around here and there and some of which i froze for the future...i will take all i can get from them as long as they cooperate...
the bed on the south side of the house is keeping up with the rest of the yard...i now have an even dozen volunteer spuds from tubers i clearly missed in ;last season's harvest...not usually a good idea to grow spuds in the same bed in consecutive years...beetles and viruses can become an issue so i try to keep up a three year rotation...however, once they appeared, i decided to let them go...if a virus issue arises i can always plant barley there next year...
the new york imports in the south bed would seem to have ceased blooming...which isn't a surprise...they are "wild" berries in keeping with my penchant for growing "wild and weedy" ancestors out there...they have not been taught to be everbearing by artificial selection...they are in their pristine, natural state...and so they will spend the rest of the season producing daughters to bloom next spring...i find four stolond from three plants...touching ground and moving on...i would expect more....
the relentless jerusalem artichokes are booming along in that bed as well...i would have weeded them...however they don't need the help...actually i think they resent it...
did i hear someone say "teosinte"? third leaves are appearing.
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