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a holiday and out of the house before six to do the garden rounds...at the portage garden the maize is nothing if not robust and the spuds look like shrubbery...it must have been one of the sporadic nights when the sprinklers were on because the beds were moist if not downright wet...no need to water so no nred to hang around...so i didn't...

at the campus garden...

i found the asparagus upright and putting up at least one summer spear...

the einkorn wheat is still mostly green...

however several more ears have finished up...i believe we are looking at a late july/early august harvest...

over in the "official" bed...

the hopi turquoise is looking corny as could be...

and, incidentally, at least "knee high"...

the intractable alflafa...

is full of blooms...

as is the carolina horse nettle...

which are being thoroughly mugged by bumble bees...the blooms fell off the spuds when the weather became hot...these solanums will not lose their flowers and there will be fruits soon enough...another reproductive vehicle for a stubbornly colonizer...

unlike the portagen garden, the lawn on campus is looking parched...

so i irrigated again, even though the rock mulch appears to be working...not everyone got a rock.