[Magdalen] First fruits

[Ann Markle]

I confess, I haven't googled, but how does one care for asparagus?  Mine
died out within 2-3 years, and my mother had a strip along her fence that
seemed to go on forever.  I did read that cultivating the soil wasn't so
good, as it doesn't like its roots disturbed (but the roots were so deep --
down in a 12-inch trench!).  I would pull weeds as best I could, but I just
couldn't keep it going, and it was so much work to plant, that I never
repeated after that first batch.

Nothing in the ground here in Buffalo yet (the formal "first date" for
planting is Memorial Day, but it's probably okay by now) -- but I will have
herbs and tomatoes, at least.  I have a very small, raised, brick-bordered
bed that I use (maybe 5'x7').

Ann

The Rev. Ann Markle
Buffalo, NY
ann.markle at aya.yale.edu

On Sun, May 8, 2016 at 10:43 PM, Susan Hagen <susanvhagen at gmail.com> wrote:

> I had a salad with tiny lettuce thinnings and baby radishes from the
> garden.  The cucumber was from the grocery store but it all tasted
> wonderful.  I weeded the asparagus patch which, sadly, seems to be
> fading out, probably from neglect.  Still, I get a few cuttings from
> it each year.  I do enjoy eating from my back yard.
>
>
> --
> The alien who resides with you shall be to you as the citizen among
> you; you shall love the alien as yourself, for you were aliens in the
> land of Egypt.
> Leviticus 19:34
>