hoed

about two months ago there was a lot going on in the garden...

even a month ago it was a fairly lively place...

not so much so today...

the asparagus is still there...it is beginning to die back though and i will be tasking it out sometime next week when the opportunity arises...

and despite the success of puddles offspring in the basement ( eight in all so far and the onions are up as well )...

as well as the robust growth in the winter wheat bed in my yard...

the effort yo grow winter wheat as a cover crop and green manure in my bed on campus has inexplicably ( to me ) failed...not that i expected much from the second planting..however, the cause the failure of the first after a fairly promising start is and unknown...so i pulled out the dead geranium ...

and took a hoe to it to disrupt any nascent "weeds" i don't want hampering progress in spring...

all that was left when i finished was the alfalfa in the corner...

there were no bees in the alfalfa today...there were a couple of visitors though...enjoying the late october warmth...more on the asparagus later.