it rained early this morning..i received nearly half an inch in my back yard...
so when i got to the garden on campus i found it both well watered and fully planted...
after i took a hoe to the jerusalem artichokes in the corner bed i went to the asparagus bed to hoe it and have a look at its progress...
the "ferns" had yet shed the water from the rain and i found one new spear on the rise...
after i hoed the back side of the bed i "hilled" the spuds with compost...
and checked up on the tomato flowers...there will be fruit soon enough...
life has been busy so i had not been to the garden in a week and i found a moderate irruption of jerusalem artichokes waiting in my bed...so the hoe was put into action again...
i found the alfalfa adapting well to its confinement...
the alfalfa in my yard has been attracting leaf cutter bees for pollen and leaves to use for cocoons...hopefully they are pollinating more than just the alfalfa ( although they are called alfalfa leaf cutter bees )...both in my neighborhood and here in the garden...
after i hoed my bed i dressed the maize with the rest of the compost i brought along and then i planted twenty-six pole bean seeds among the maize plants which, with some coaxing, will use the cornstalks as trellises...any jerusalem artichoke removal from around the maize will be by hand from here out...there will probably be little leeway for a hoe...even on as easily controlled as a warren hoe...
the maize is looking robust and should easily support multiple bean stalks by season's end...
with today's addition of beans i do believe the planting in my bed is done...now we wait to see how the beans, peppers, tomatoes, spuds, alfalfa, and the geranium do...and how the squirrels react...we have, i think, and even chance of having some corn...as i recall they are not fond of flints.
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