potatoes are perennials

we received measurable rain last night...

and it has warmed...

so after i got off what passes for work these days i went out to the campus garden to have a look around...

over in the asparagus bed...

i counted thirteen spears ( not including the "ferned" ones )...

eleven ant hills...

and saw no sign of the spuds i planted last trip out...

someone, or some thing, has been snaping spears off above ground so i cut them off below ground just to kee things neat and to minimize the potential for viruses and/or infestations...

over in my "official" bed...

there are still only two garlic plants up which is diminishing my already feeble enthusiasm for spring garlic...

there is a surfeit of volunteer spuds in this bed...proving that potatoes are actually perennials masquerading as plant/replant annuals...i never seem to find them all at harvest...

at the south end of the bed the two alfalfa plants seem to have merged...

and an increasingly important correspondent to this blog will still be pleased that the alflafa considers any attempt at setting limits a grievous insult...a scofflaw if ever there was one...we will see what the spuds i actually planted are up to ( if anything ) next trip out.