there seems to be no escaping spuds anymore

the lawn at the campus garden is making it clear that there has been rain of late...we will see how long that keeps up...

rain or not this asparagus is dying back and it is far too early for that...i am uncertain of what is up here...the spear is not broken so there must be something else at work...the rest seems to be fine...this too we will wait and see about...

the spuds are looking well...

the soil is moist up to the surface...so no watering...

some of the spuds have finished up...so...

there was a harvest...

three plants...two pounds two ounces of tubers...and a few drops to plant...and i left the smallest ones in the bed as volunteers...

an important correspondent to this blog will be pleased at the alfalfa's continuing disdain...

it is still blooming away...

and attracting visitors...

however many of the blooms have gone to seed...

and i do not think all the yellow in the leaves is from overwatering...there are early hints of autumn in the air...

irrespective of what event time is hinting at the alfalfa still stubbornly goes about the business of establishing new stands around the garden...another determined perennial.

rain ( sort of )

it was raining when i got to the garden this morning...

and the lawn there certainly needs some...however, let's be clear...

it was more of a drizzle than a rain and there was about five hundredths of an inch of it in my rain gauge when i got home...so...

even though the soil surface appeared moist ( because it was )...

just below the surface it was desperately dry...

so i watered in the rain...

my "official" bed looks good...

my most important correspondent will note the alfalfa's recalcitrance regarding limits...

it is in full bloom which helps the bees...

some carolina horse nettle has bloomed as well...

the spuds behind the asparagus are looking happy...

and one of them is pondering a bloom or two as well...

and, finally, i do not recall ever seeing an asparagus spear do a three hundred and sixty degree turn before..alwways something new in the garden.

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.