out at the garden for the first time ( except for a long-distance telephoto look last summer ) since autumn 2019 and there is work to do in most of the beds...although a few seem surprisingly clear of inavaders...
the asparagus seems to have survivied through last season at least...
so i cut back the dead detritus and dug a shalow trench to help the spears along in breaking surface...we will see what transpires here in the next few weeks...i found some freindly earthworms as i dug...i was pleased...
i expected my bed to be a mess and it was...there was immediate good news though...when i cut back a couple of season's worth of dead growth on the alfalfa i found green shoots...so it is fine and the bees, if any wander by, will have blooms and material for cocoons later in summer...
after i freed the alafalfa i took a weeding sythe to the invaders and then turned the bed to disrupt their roots and leave them to decompose...there will be more turnings i am sure...
as i turned the bed i popped up a few spuds...doubtlessly volunteers from tubers i missed in the 2019 harvest...definitely two elmer's blues and what look to be a couple of german butterballs...so i replanted all four and i would not be surprised to find more volunteers coming up over the coming weeks...
finally i turned in a bag of compost on the north end of my bed and broadcast in about one hundered and fifty grains of einkorn wheat...it is coming along in my yard and so will,hopefully, do well here...that's it...some clean up and a pair of plantings...the balamce of what i plan to plant here will go in after the last chance ( except for the quinoa which will be late next month ) of frost which will be later in may if the averages hold true...we will see hiow all this goes.
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