there are beds in my yard but i wouldn't call it anything as structured as a garden

it is warming consistently here ( not that it won't cool off yet before spring is"over" ) and things are speeding up...

a trip around the back yard showed me ( among other things we will be getting to ) that the asparagus is up...

so i took a drive out to campus to have a look...at first sight the bed looked inert...

however a little closer look found four spears breaking surface so the spring asparagus season is on...

i have been assigned a different bed in the campus garden this season because it seems my robust maize was throwing too much shade elsewhere...

i had said i would remove the alfalfa from the bed i had been inhabiting since the garden moved some years ago so i went to work on that...

it is a perennial and like all of them deeply rooted...i got a shade over a foot of the tap root and some adjacent roots just below the crown...

it had already begun to green so i cut of the dead growth from last season...

and replanted it in the corner of my new bed...

i found another small alfalfa plant...no doubt seeded by the parent...and so planted that in the corner opposite hopefully they will serve as an attractant for some local leaf cutters which can pollinate as they prepare nests...then i turned the bed to disrupt anything going on in there...then i left...i will be out in the next week or so to plant spuds...

back home both the einkorn...

and the emmer wheat are up and running...

while both the bed of winter wheat...

and the winter rye are filling in and turning a darker green...there may be bread yet...

over on the north side of the house more ramps are popping up sans critter interference...

while over on the south side their cousins the egyptian walking onions have been freed to wander among the winter vetch and the grapes...there is more to come...the berries and spuds will be coming along next..and then beans , squash, maize, teocintli, tomatoes...and, if the basement season pays off, yacon and mashua...the future is indeterminate...all we can do is wait and see.