the campus garden is a bit less quiet than it was on my last visit...
there are peppers and collards in one of the beds...other seasons are underway...
there are forty-seven asparagus spears up...
some of them are three feet tall and woody as could be...
some are just coming up...
some have "ferned" and begun to feed the roots...
and some have been harvested above ground which makes me very unhappy...not the harvesting...the above ground...
leaving live stems above ground increases the possibility of insect and disease infestation/infection...so i cut them off at a diagonal below the surface...i see there will be more maintenance trips just to check up...
over in my bed there is some significant movement...
the younger alfalfa plant is booming along and the elder has finally recovered from the transplant shock and has some robust new growth...cool...bring on the bees...
the government spuds have all leafed...
and the morene...
tacna...
michigan purple...
and basadre are displaying some of the potatoes genetic diversity in their leaves...
in the other trench a bison and a few elmer's blues have begun photosynthesis...
when i got home and checked on the teocintli seed i found that both the zea mexicana and northern tepehuan had some ready to plant...
so i loosened the soil with a warren hoe...
and planted four of each...when the remainder progress far enough in the baggies they may find themselves on campus...
as i was planting i ran across some old friends and wanted to give them an opportunity to say "hey" and recognize the yoeman work they do in sustaining my yard...thanks.
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