unmet expectations...

which may be my responsibility for entertaining them...life's like that sometimes...

it is a spare lookng bed i have going on here on campus...

i am afraid there is no life left in one of the alfalfa transplants...time to take it out...

the other alfalfa plant is verdant and obviously working on building a root system given its height compared to what is in my back yard...

still, up and running...

beyond that it gets a bit sketchy...this is the extent of the emmer wheat that is up and , like in my yard, the einkorn has completely failed...

the barley seems to be in little better shape...

while the containers out in my back yard are looking lush...so the seed is good... so i planted...

two more rows...where the einkorn has failed...

as well as a row of teosinte for which i have zero expectations...

some of the asparagus has begun to "fern" which is fine...feed the roots...

while some individuals are harvesting spears by simply snapping them off which displeasess me for more than aesthetic reasons...so i cut them off below soil surface and will continue to do so as i maintain the bed