[Magdalen] First fruits

[Charles Wohlers]

As Susan says, the main thing is to keep it weeded. Mine wasn't doing much, 
but, after getting all the crabgrass out, it did very well the next year 
(meaning, last year). I have some just coming up which will need picking 
soon.

Chad Wohlers
Woodbury, VT USA
chadwohl at satucket.com



-----Original Message----- 
From: Ann Markle
Sent: Saturday, May 21, 2016 8:14 PM
To: magdalen at herberthouse.org
Subject: Re: [Magdalen] First fruits

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
>