spuds

there are twenty-seven asparagus spears up in the campus garden, however none are quite ready to harvest...

aside form that the garden is looking rather austere..this will be changing a bit later this month as, among other things, tree planting on campus is on the menu...

there is some growth going on in my bed...the smaller of the two alfalfa plants i transplanted eleven days ago had adapted well while the larger plant seems to have shocked a bit..there seems to be less green than there was...still there is green and we will look for new growth next time out...

kimberly always told me to plant potatoes on good friday..and here we are so i turned the bed again and dug two trenches a shovel deep and a shovel wide and spread compost along the bottom of the trenches...

in the trench along the west side i planted morene...

tacna...

michigan purple...

basadre...

and a german butterball at the very north end...

in the trench on the east side i planted four elmer's blue, another german butterball, and a bison...

i back filled the trenches to cover the spuds to a depth of about three inches and now we wait...i left a space on the north end for some maize and the center of the bed will probably be populated by peppers and tomatoes...if the winter's indoor seasons pays off well enough the may be a couple of mashua tubers going in as well...and perhaps some sweet clover around the edges for the bees...after the spuds are established and the trenches filled back in.