never trust the weather

particularly in these changable times...

my thermometer says it isn't close to the eighties ( fahrenheit ) this morning...and the national weather service tells me there is a 70% chance of rain later today...a 90% chance to night...and a 60% chance tomorrow...we'll see...at any rate there is no frost in the garden today...

i am on the "watering schedule " for the campus garden on thursdays and today is thursday so i watered...despite the national weather service...at least those beds i perceived as having been acted on by humans...

and not those solely populated by lamb's quarters and the ever thorny ( in more ways than one ) carolina horse nettle...they don't especially need my intervention anyway...they will thrive without my help...yours either...

it does seem the local critter population has discovered that some planting has gone on...these things happen...

the volunteer spuds over in my bed seem to be doing fine...

the einkorn wheat looks about right...

and the alfalfa is blooming away even though something still seems to be using it as a bed...

i brought along four zea mexicana seelings i had germimated and planted them...unless the millet i sowed fails ( no sign of it yet ) i do believe my bed is planted for the season...don't look for tomatoes...

the asparagus cannot be described as anything but robust...and, like the asparagus in my yard, it is flowering...hoping for "berries" this year...

around the back side of the bed...

the cow peas i sowed are up and running in various stages of development...they will fill the bed and by the end of june you will not be able to see much of the soil...hopefully the soil will become nitrogen rich...then a fall cover crop ( probably rye grass ) to take it up and hold it until it is turned under in spring to release the nitrogen for a new crop of something...sustainable, resilient, relying on natural cycles not chemicals