Jul

31

Eighth Asparagus

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I noticed this evening that the eighth asparagus plant has emerged. I was pretty pleased about that. And I thought that they were a lost cause. I guess my next step is to figure out what to do with them over the winter.

I fertilized my strawberries last night, cause I read somewhere that this is the time to do that. I have lost two of them and may lose another before it’s all over. They seem to be growing well and some of the plants have sent out runners. I was thinking that maybe I would winter them over with some of the pine shavings from the chicken coop haven’t decided if that is a good idea or not.

From my list on Thursday, I did get three things done. I planted spinach, I cleaned the coop and cleaned up all the weeds I have pulled from the strawberries, raspberries and asparagus.

The coop still needs to be hosed out and winterized but I can do that next weekend.  I ordered 25 more chicks on Saturday for delivery the week of August 8th.
This evening I planted the pholx and Serberian Iris I bought a while ago.  I still need to plant the columbine that I bought.

That is it for this evening.

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