gardening with bureaucrats

the bureaucrats have spoken and we've had this conversation before...still, the sclerosis takes me aback ( no i am not surprised...one expects this sort of thing in an institutional setting ) at times...

the asparagus is still vertical...it is also cold hardy and firmly rooted in event time and could care less about bureaucratic edicts concerning its behavior...

it is nowhere near done...it is still throwing up spears...and it won't be by the end of october either...or , possibly, even november ( we will keep tabs on the aspragus in my yard which will be allowed to run out its season in event time because i am not a bureaucrat...so we will have a control population to determine the extent of bureaucratic fallacy...yes the gardener is a bit techty today and there is more to come )...

the carolina horse nettle might be done by the end of next month...it will be back in spring...in the absence of toxic chemicals it isn't going anywhere...

the alfalfa is a perennial so i had better label it as such...it may not be done next month either...will label anyway...

all the hopi turquoise is done...and out of a dozen plants, many with multiple ears, i harvested five...someone or something has been at the maize...this is a hazard of public gardening ( recall the teosinte incident from last year and notice there was none in this garden in 2022...i may simply grow some grumpy plants next season...say cowpeas or stinging nettles ) and is accepted if not expected...the plants never got much more than three feet tall and since i have never grown this variety i am uncertain if this is the extent of its height or if there was a fertility issue ( another reason to grow the nitrogen setting cowpeas ) i was punted out pf the bed i had worked since the garden moved in, i believe, 2014 a few years ago because my maize was so tall it was "throwing shade" on some collards...no danger of that with this season's crop...so...between bureaucratic intransigence and a somewhat limited harvest i am calling it a failed season...although i did see bees on the alflafa...there is a reason it is there to be labeled.