i am part of the saturday watering rotation at the campus garden so i went out early this morning to have a look around...it rained significantly wednesday and again there was rain thursday...yesterday was a cool day and i found the soil in the bed amply moist and no need to water...monday may be another story but that is another day as well...for now no water necessary...
the asparagus is good...
around back the cherry tomatoes are burgeoning and the potatoes continue to bloom...i brought along some compost to "hill" the spuds so the tubers growing near the surface won't "green"..and i fed what was left to the tomato plant...as i finished up i noticed some squash from one of the nursing school beds had made an incursion...this is not a problem..there is room to accommodate a visitor i believe...
down the row, the maize can only be described as pleasingly robust...
full with broad, dark green leaves and tillers that tell me it is happy with the soil preparations i made...
and sprouting a second tier of support roots to enhance stability...
over five feet tall, soon enough i will be looking up at it...
in the bed's interior the bean vines continue their way up the stalks...there should be blooms soon enough...
my bell peppers are coming along...
there are quite a few peppers in the library bed as well and the multiplicity of blooms there are a good sign that there are more to come...
in the nursing school beds i found nascent cucumbers and a few green tomatoes popping up...
and the collards are coming along nicely despite the presence of the carolina horse nettle in the bed...
and just outside the bed the plants continue to bloom in an effort to produce fruit...i counted thirty individuals in the garden lawn this morning which is more than i saw last trip...they are trying to produce seed which could be halted if the lawn there is mowed at some point...that isn't going to stop them however...they can spread ( and doubtlessly have here ) by underground rhizomes...i am afraid they are a permanent fixture of the garden...watch out for those spines.
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