the garden was looking good when i arrived this morning, due, no doubt, to the focused work of the gardeners...
which includes a successful watering schedule...it was fairly warm yesterday however i found the soil dark and moist from the surface down...always a pleasing find...
the asparagus is doing well and, again, despite the recent heat, has produced a new spear...more food ffor the large scale root system they develop...
around the back side of the bed there are a multiplicity of tomatoes coming along...
the spuds back there continue to bloom and, if i am not grossly mistaken, there are nascent potato fruits as well...
down the row, john steuart curry couldn't ask for better maize to pose for him which pleases me inordinately...and the geranium blooms would an accent to the canvas...
tillering and support roots continue...
my bell peppers seem to be willing to grow...
and deep in the bed a pole bean vine is reaching for a trellis to of the sisters are about to reunite for another season...
the library bed is beginning to teem with peppers of several varieties...
while the beds tended by the school of nursing have brand new tomatoes and cucumbers reaching for the trellises...
the trip wasn't all sweetness and light however...i found holiday making detritus...
and an expanding and aggressively flowering population of carolina horse nettle...last season the old biology club bed was fallow and pretty much overrun with this...i tried to remove as many fruits as i could from them to keep them from seeding...it would seem i was less that successful...these may well be mowed before they seed...however they ate perennial and deeply rooted plants so they will be back and doubtlessly some will succeed in reproducing...given the strictly organic nature of the garden it is unlikely herbicide will be deployed ( besides herbicide is not the simplest thing to control...a good post-application rain and there could be issues in the beds )...so it seems they are here to stay...invaders completely out of their native range...which leaves me wondering, "what next?"
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