spuds II

out early to the campus garden because i am no night owl and function best in the morning...

over in my "offical" bed...

the alflafa is looking vibrant...

and i am sure that a critically important correspondent to this blog will be pleased to see the alfalfa continuing to ignore limits and engage in reckless behavior...

past that events in the bed have taken a turn for the so so as i can find only two garlic plants functioning...somewhat disturbing...however it is early in the season yet...we will see what transpires...

over in the asparagus bed...

"ferning" continues...

and spear production seems to have slowed...i count only twenty-nine today ( incidentally the total includes spears that have "ferned" )...so the harvest today was minimal...

today's garden agenda was mainly planting spuds at the back of the asparagus bed...when i had a closer look back there it seemed as if the volunteer spud i transplanted from my "official" be had vanished... <

the fabric that covered the bed for the winter was responsible for the limited anount of "native growth" i encountered when i pulled it back...

i turned the bed and worked it with a warren hoe to break up old roots...

finding the missing transplant in the process...which i replanted...

the bed is overflowing at the moment and since i will be hilling the spuds with compost as the season moves along i decided not to add compost today...

instead, as i planted the spuds...

i tossed in a handful of worm casting for each one to get them started...

and then covered them over...now we wait for spuds...and garlic.