[MomwithHope]

Just love the pictures. Especially the weathervane and the orange bouganvilla. I have never seen that color before. It's almost 11am and done for the morning. Only 81 today so better than the last few days. I've been getting tomato plants in during the evening. So about a week ago I saw a hole in the asparagus bed, big enough for a small groundhog to use as an exit hole. The only thing I could do about it was to put a rock over it, the one in the picture is about 8" long and about 5" wide. Weighs about 5 pounds. Nothing else happened for a few days. I hoped there was no asparagus under the rock. This morning as I got to the bed I saw that the rock had been upended. Before I could start cussing out varmints I saw that a fat asparagus had upended the rock. It was pretty impressive and picture worthy and sharing worthy I think. I took the rock off right away and added some dirt in the hole. Our asparagus is just starting this week, have picked 5 so far. I was down there last night so this growth happened overnight.

[Diana in Wisconsin]

“He Is Risen! He Is Risen, Indeed!” :)

That is quite the story! Nature always finds a way, doesn’t she?

[FamiliarFace]

Impressive asparagus!

On another note, last year I planted some teeny tiny baby shallots late in the season (probably June). They didn’t amount to much so I just let them overwinter in the hopes that they would be more robust. Well, they are beginning to look like normal small shallots. I think the container they are in holds too much moisture, so I want to put them into something else or else figure out how to improve the drainage on this planter. The soil seems wet a lot of the time. I’m looking for any advice on shallots. I don’t want to give up, but I have a lot to learn. Ideas or suggestions are welcome. Because of my HOA, I have to have these in a container that I can move somewhere if I ever get a note from the neighborhood watchdogs.

[Bon of Babble]

I love asparagus and wish I could grow it where I live - it is far too hot here.

I am lucky I am not fighting gophers - as a lot of my friends and neighbors are. I dread them finding my garden. I've seen them fell huge rose bushes in one night by eating all of the roots. They are impossible to get rid of.

I am trying to collect all of the colors of bougainvillea - I have yellow/gold, white/green/pink, red, pink/cream/red, purple and orange. This is the yellow one, called "gold rush" - I've seen it as "California gold rush" too:

This is "Thai Delight.": This is "sea foam" (sorry it's turned):