a day off ofund me in the garden before seven this morning...mostly to beat the campus traffic and indiscrimnate parking...where i found...
twenty-seven asparagus spears in different phases of emergence...
some of which i harvested...over in my official bed...
the alfalfa is getting along with its spring growth...pollen and nesting material for the bees soon enough...
when i put this fabric down last autumn it was flat...so what, i was wondering, was going on under there...
no clue what this is ( or, rather, was )...
however it was deeply rooted enough that it took a minute or two of shovel work to dislodge it...
the bed was heavily populated by rocks from last season's rock mulch experiment...so i piled them aside...
did the requisite turning, compsting, turning, hoeing, and raking of the bed...
scooped out twenty holes three inches or so deep...
gave each a handful of sand and another of worm castings...
and planted twenty garlic cloves, pointy side up...
i marked them all ( i brought enough markers today ) and lined the edge of the bed with the rocks...we may be experimenting with a rock mulch on garlic before long...there are seed potatoes on the way which will be going in behind the asparagus before the end of the month ( tentatively, contingent on actual arrival of the spuds and the weather )...imagining there will be more frequent trips out here to mind the asparagus and harvest it a bit more thoroughly than last season...it "ferned" early last year because it grew rapidly between deferred visits...we will assay to do better this year.
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