[Magdalen] First fruits

[Susan Hagen]

I did buy two quarts of local strawberries today.  I intend to indulge
heavily this week.  And a bag of just picked spinach.  I always crave
greens this time of year.  Tonight I'm having a lettuce salad from my
garden.

On Sat, May 21, 2016 at 8:24 PM, Susan Hagen <susanvhagen at gmail.com> wrote:
> Ann,
> It's difficult for all the reasons you just gave.  You can't till it
> and have to hand weed being careful not to disturb the crowns.  I went
> to the farm stand today and bought some and mentioned to another
> customer that mine seems to be dying out.  He said that the voles ate
> the roots off all of his.  A light of understanding dawned for me
> since I have a terrible vole problem.  That and the fact that my patch
> used to be in full sun and now is definitely much shadier.  I won't
> try to replant.  Otherwise, it's a heavy feeder.  I always gave it a
> full large bag of Espoma Plant Tone, an organic fertilizer.  With the
> cost of that, I might as well just buy it at the local markets.
>
> Susan
>
> On Sat, May 21, 2016 at 8:14 PM, Ann Markle <ann.markle at aya.yale.edu> wrote:
>> 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
>>>
>
>
>
> --
> 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



-- 
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