when i went to the campus garden to water on the first of july i had two happy teosinte plants greening away...
when i went back a week later to water i found the rock mulches empty...
and i found my plants in a pile of garden "waste" in my bed...i will err on the side of amity and say that someone decide to "weed" my bed and in their abject ignorance trashed the teosinte by way of lending a hand ( if it had been vandalism why not savage the entire bed...the spuds and wheat were completely intact )...my irritation was pronounced ( invective flowed )...why someone would consider plants carefully stone mulched as superfluous to the bed is a question that will probably not be answered...it still hangs in the air...
the weather has been "unseasonably cool" which may have saved the plants...they are still green...the root system had not completely dried out...and, struggling though they may be they have been reestablished and in newly arranged stone mulches...one hopes they are left alone to work on surviving...we will see...
beyond that the minimal palntings in my bed seem fine...the alfalfa is trying to stay inbounds and the spuds are robust...
and the einkorn wheat is coming along well...
other garden events include the asparagus using the "unseasonable" cool to produce more new spears...
while the cow peas have become the greenest things in the garden and are preparring to vine...the question is, let them spread across the bed, or construct a trellis...i am undecided, however i do not especially want them vining up the asparagus...a decision is in order.
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