it is march and we had half an inch of rain yesterday and there is more forecast...that it rained in march here is no surprise...that there has been 5.8 inches of rain since january first is...there was a significant lack of snow...the most i recorded here was about two inches and it all melted quickly...
fortunately there was not extreme cold to go with that lack of snow so the winter wheat and rye seem to have come through the dormant season in good shape...they will fill in soon enough...
there will be daffodils in a week or two and that is a sure sign winter is waning...there are other stirrings as well...
if anything the onions are greener...
and there is good new growth in the berry patch...no news from the ramps or asparagus just yet..and in asparagus terms that might not be bad since corona virus has even tainted the garden...not here mind you..the yard is fine...and so, i imagine, is the community garden on campus...except the campus is closed ( the "garden stewardship orientation" has become a "web/phone conference"...i am inclined to skip that ) and i am uncertain if i can actually be physically in the garden to uncover the asparagus there...one supposes since it is in the open air there would be little chance of contagion...bureaucrats are bureaucrats however and they may be rigidly authoritarian in their fears...one supposes a call to the campus police might clear questions up...we will see...
there are no viruses among the spuds under the lights in the basement...they are green and so robust that a couple look more like bushes than spuds ( and will produce disappointing tubers...if any at all...the scrawnier ones may have better production tuber-wise )...they should be finishing up soon and one hopes for "drops"...small tubers just to drop into the soil outdoors in a month or so...things are rumbling to life out there and there will be many more plantings...i have seed...they will grow...they know what to do.
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