my yard received around 3/4" of rainfall this morning...something of a rarity in a "moderate drought" ( and the national weather service says this is not enough to "break the drought" )...
so, after what passes for work these days, i headed over to the campus garden...
where brown is still the dominant color in the lawn...
the soil was well watered down to six inches ( so i did not dig deeper )...
that asparagus is around eight feet tall...
and all the asparagus is full of blooms and blooms turning into"berries"...there will be asparagus seed and that seems to show the plants are doing well...
the spuds behind the asparagus, conversely, are having some relatively minor issues...
given the yellowing going on, the rain plus the downright soaking i gave them the last time out, may have provided a touch too much water...they will recover and i will let them dry out a bit...
over in my "offical" bed...
the volunteer spuds are not yellow ( one wonders if the peat moss i put in the bed behind the asparagus might be retaining a bit too much moisture )...
and the hopi blue maize is looking sturdy...
the alfalfa continues to produce blooms...
and, much to the glee of a very important correspondent, ignore limits...
the new patch of alfalfa that popped up has been severely cut back by some uninformed gardener...it is still there...still a perennial...and stubborn...
and, as if to underscore its defiant nature, another new patch has irrupted further down the row of beds ( and we know where it is coming from )...
and, while we are talking stubborn populations, the carolina horse nettle is stil blooming around the garden...and it isn't going anywhere either...
and, finally, in my back yard einkorn wheat is beginning to produce ears...10000 year old dna carries on...tenacious stuff.
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