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Mulched Asparagus

Here is the asparagus bed that I planted this earlier this year. All of the crowns came up , which is good.  In fact they are really doing well, they all have three or four ferns coming up, with extra shoots too.     I have fertilized once so far with a weak shot of fish emulsion, Then a thick layer of grass clippings for the mulch.    The first couple of shoots came up around the size of a pencil, but with the fertilizer and mulch they have gotten a little thicker and quite a bit taller when they open up to the fern stage.

Here is my mulch maker, its a Cub Cadet, It has side discharge, mulch or bagging capabilities. For my purposes the bagger is king!     I use this to gather grass clippings for the compost and for mulching beds.  In the fall I run it over leaves to pick up for the compost as well, it works great.

Here it is the end of April and I thought I better get an update put up.   Well with all the rain its a shock that everything didn’t float away.

The Asparagus bed is looking good, I can’t get a picture yet, it all blends into the green grass of the pasture at this point, but soon my faithful minions …soon!

Onion plants

The onions are looking good, they are shooting right up, no bulbs showing yet. Also have some Garlic right behind these.  The garlic is moving right along too, i know i need to get in there a weed. I mulched everything in these beds with some pine needles from the front yard.  Needs another layer before the real heat shows up… it wont be long.

Onions and Garlic

Here is the Garlic photo, I used construction fencing to keep the chickens out, works real good.

You cam also see the spinach in this photo, we have already harvested some spinach from this bed, It was delish!

Horseradish and Potato

This is a Horseradish plant, actually two, the other one is way smaller and is closer to the near side of the planter. On the left side is a purple potato that I planted in there just to see what it would do, guess we see.

With the slow warm-up that occurred in our area last weekend my wife and I decided to get some raised beds built. So after some light tilling and some hammer and nailing we got two small planting area put together.
One long bed is for some uc157 asparagus crowns, two years old of course. In another small 4×4 area I have put in 2 blueberries, don’t remember what species at the moment, will find out for ya! In that bed are a few onions starts too. The other beds are open at the moment, until we decide what goes where. I’ll get some photos up soon

On another note we bought a 1951 Ford 8n, it needs some work , but its gonna help out alot around this place. It came with a brush hog, disc harrow, furrower, and back blade. I can’t wait to get this thing out and working, I’m not sure when that will be though hehehe.