there was a distinct chill about when i set out for the campus garden this morning...i am late with a chore there and i plead a hectic work schedule that has nor eliminated free time but has left it at a premium and at exactly the wrong time of the asparagus season...
clearly the asparagus is done feeding the roots for the year and the growth that has died back has to be cleared to make way fro the spring irruption...
before i cut the asparagus back i harvested quite a few "berries' from the plants...already cold shocked they are ready to scatter ...
i cut back the plants...however i did leave a few of the berries in the bed to fall where nature puts them and, hopefully, generate a few more plants...asparagus is a perennial but, like all the living on the planet, it does have a finite life span...twenty tears is a good life in asparagus terms so we need renewal...
i spread a layer of compost ( which was steaming in the cold ) as a layer of insulation for the asparagus crowns...the ground is too frozen to admit landscaping staples so straw will have to wait..or may not happen at all...
so i believe we can close the 2018 garden season now...except for on last event...
when i got home i took four of the "berries" i had harvested and sowed them into a bed in my yard that i have already established asparagus in to, hopefully ( gardening is a hopeful, if not optimistic, undertaking ) establish more growth here as well...if the weather warms at a time i have time there will be a straw dispersal and another post.
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