doom

this bed on the south side of the house has egyptian walking onions...

assorted "native plants"...

and a colony of strawberries along the northern edge...

as well as a number that escaped over the wall to the soil outside the bed last season...and there was good reason for that escape...

because these are making their yearly return to the ancestral bed...the onions and the berries will be fine...hardy souls...the native plants are doomed however...because these will turn into these...

densely packed plants eight or ten feet tall with large , yellow flowers ( members of the helianthus family )...shading out anything foolhardy enough to venture near them...the berries and onions needn't worry over competition from the natives...

elsewhere around the beds, the asparagus is coming along and it just may be that some of the seed i spread out there last autumn may have taken hold...we will see as the plants become more identifiable...

the ramp population has been stable at forty-three plants the past two censuses i have taken so i believe we have reached the end of that expansion...growth, blooms, and seed are next on the wish list there...

and finally, the wheat and rye are filling in and doing fine...

the rye is pushing two feet in height...

the wheat is shorter...however it never reaches the vertical dimension the rye does...so it would seem to be on schedule...looking for a harvest in july sometime...and then the real work begins...the season is taking hold and later this month squash, legumes, solanum, and zea will be going in...and the bees in june...the tempo will be picking up soon.