[Homestead] Asparagus
eureka at hctc.net
eureka at hctc.net
Sun Mar 9 12:39:32 EDT 2008
My husband, a 2005 transplant from Wisconsin, is simply
amazed that our soil never freezes and is enjoying
gardening 12 months a year. He's out there raising beds as
we speak. We have been enjoying seven kinds of lettuce,
arugula, turnip greens, three kinds of kale, and chard for
over a month. Our seed grown transplants of cauliflower,
broccoli, brussels sprouts, bok choy, and kohlrabi are
ready to be planted this week. I hope to get some photos
posted to our blog and will email the link when I do.
I've noticed plenty of bees in the garden drinking from
the drip irrigation lines, but I haven't seen them on the
peach and apricot trees which are now in full bloom nearer
the house.
The flip side to living in such a temperate zone is
sometimes it gets too hot when the tomato, pepper, and
eggplant seedlings need to be set out and we have to erect
tents with old sheets over everything to shade them while
they take root. The garden begins to look like a hobo
camp!
--Sage
Way Out in Texas
On Sat, 8 Mar 2008 15:32:49 -0500
"Lisa K.V. Perry" <lisakvperry at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 7, 2008 at 8:42 PM, <eureka at hctc.net> wrote:
>
>> For those of you still mired in winter, I am sending
>> pleasant thoughts--we harvested and ate our first
>> asparagus of spring tonight here in southwest Texas!!
>
>
> Wow, asparagus in early March. Like when we grew the
>most beautiful red
> peppers until Thanksgiving in Charleston, SC. Can't
>imagine gardening in a
> climate such as TX or coastal SC right now, meanwhile
>we're getting light
> flurries but the leaves of the daffodils are above
>ground and the first
> crocus opened two days ago.
>
> Lisa
> sw VA
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