a day off took me out to campus because there were some things to attend to...
last trip i noticed one of the ferning asparagus plants had become top heavy and capaized...in the interim it had been joined by a couple of others...so...
two hardwood stakes ( five feet long )...
and some jute twine ( we wil be running into that again in a minute ) later...
hey presto! upright again...
the einkorn wheat cohabiting with the asparagus is verdant...
however it is hosting more native growth than i am prepared to countenance so...
after i hit the bed with the weeding hoe ( to keep the bureaucrats happy )...
i seeded the bed with ryegrass which will keep the natives at bay and can be turned in in autumn as a green manure...then it was off to my other bed...
being part of a community means showing some constraint and engaging in compromise...the alfalfa wants nothing to do with that...the twine i used last season was remarkably useless so this season, after i pulled the alfalfa back into the stakes with...jute twine...i coralled al with some critter net...
i know that some of you ( and i can think of one someone in particular ) will think al should be left to his own devices...however i had my reasons...the next step in the day was...
to pull the landscaping fabric off the soil...
in order to turn the bed...carfully leaving the volunteer spud be ( and you plant freedom fighters take note that al is already making a break for it )...
after i turned the bed i established three compost hills...
and planted the hopi turquoise maize i soaked overnight...then i seeded this bed with ryegrass as well...finished on campus i drove over to the portage community garden...
where i did nothing besides taking photos of the seventeen spuds that are up and running there...i planted maize along the perementer of the bed there yesterday...we'll see what that does.
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