took an early trip out to campus to see what was what...
i found the asparagus in an upright position...
and the most recent spears about the diameter of a pencil...that, along with a forecast calling for deep summer like temperatures this coming week, tells me the edible sprear season is pretty much done so i back-filled the trench with compost to feed the roots...unfortunately the photos i took of that process came out so badly as to be useless...so you will jsut have to take my word on the back-fill...
the einkorn wheat behind the asparagus has reached what is very near its full height ( this is an ancient and "unimproved" variety...altogether a far more intractable a grain that say hard red winter wheat...there will be no "amber waves"..or, if there are, they will be easy to sail over )...
and i see signs of ears emerging soon enough...
over in my "official" bed ( i am the custodian of the asparagus, however if no one else wants to plant the back of the bed i do....hence the einkorn )...
the hopi turquoise is coming along well...
and both the alfalfa that has fled the compound...
and that which remained behind, are in full bloom...good for the bees...
the volunteer spuds in the bed are hinting at blooming as well...given the expected increase in temperature it seems unlikely the blooms will produce fruits...we will see...
and while solanum is in focus here, i heard talk...somewhere...of eradicating the carolina horse nettle in the garden...this is, of course, nonsense...a plant far more determined than humans that spreds by seed and rhyzomes is not going to succumb to any sort of "normal weeding"...agent orange...maybe...but not pulling digging, or cutting...a very short servey revealed thirty plants around the beds and deep into the lawn...one should adapt...
finally, anticipating the coming heat i established a rock mulch around one of the hopi turquoise plants...if no one mistakes it for a "weed" and yanks it out of the ground this season, i may eastablish more...again, we will see
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