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drgarlic
May 18, 2012, 11:25:46 PM5/18/12
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Wow! My asparagus patch is going for the record. Last week I
harvested 116 pounds of the stuff. Most of it has found a home, but I
still have both green and purple available. Perhaps some of you would
like to cruise out to Maplewood Gardens and look around. Free garden
tours to anyone who is looking to freeze some asparagus. Summer is
making a visit this weekend, and the strawberries are in full bloom.
I wouldn't mind if someone brought a little rain along.
harvested 116 pounds of the stuff. Most of it has found a home, but I
still have both green and purple available. Perhaps some of you would
like to cruise out to Maplewood Gardens and look around. Free garden
tours to anyone who is looking to freeze some asparagus. Summer is
making a visit this weekend, and the strawberries are in full bloom.
I wouldn't mind if someone brought a little rain along.
Jasia
May 19, 2012, 12:29:38 PM5/19/12
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Hi Dave,
I would like to bring the WI Express group (6 pre-nursing and pre-occupational health) to the farm for an intro to sustainable food on Monday, May 21st, around 2 pm. I would like 3-4 pounds of asparagus, if you still have some to spare. Please let me know if either the group or the asparagus are a problem.
Thanks a bunch,
Jasia
drgarlic
May 20, 2012, 9:24:29 PM5/20/12
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Well, Mother Nature decided today to relieve me of my asparagus
surplus. Two minutes of hail driven by a furious wind riddled both of
my big patches. The hail was small, mostly the size of a pea, but it
was very numerous and traveling at a high rate of speed. Many stalks
were hit by 3 or 4 hailstones resulting in most losing their tips.
Even the smaller ones that I had left to fern out were decapitated.
In a strange phenomenon that I don't understand, the surviving spears
had arced forward at a 90 degree angle, so that they were horizontal,
pointing into the wind that had driven the hail. This should not
cause long term damage to the roots, but will curtail production for a
few days. Nearby emerging potatoes suffered some holes in their
leaves, as did my larger brassica plants, but they should all recover
in a few days. I don't know what the wind velocity was, but it was
sufficient to blow five 80 lb bales of straw off a stack, and move one
of them 25 feet. Oh yeah, we got a tenth of an inch of rain, too.
surplus. Two minutes of hail driven by a furious wind riddled both of
my big patches. The hail was small, mostly the size of a pea, but it
was very numerous and traveling at a high rate of speed. Many stalks
were hit by 3 or 4 hailstones resulting in most losing their tips.
Even the smaller ones that I had left to fern out were decapitated.
In a strange phenomenon that I don't understand, the surviving spears
had arced forward at a 90 degree angle, so that they were horizontal,
pointing into the wind that had driven the hail. This should not
cause long term damage to the roots, but will curtail production for a
few days. Nearby emerging potatoes suffered some holes in their
leaves, as did my larger brassica plants, but they should all recover
in a few days. I don't know what the wind velocity was, but it was
sufficient to blow five 80 lb bales of straw off a stack, and move one
of them 25 feet. Oh yeah, we got a tenth of an inch of rain, too.
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