So I woke up at 7 and the first thing I did was look around for the peacocks. That was bizarre yesterday. Weather is warming up at night so I am going to put all my seedlings outside for day and night, except the tiny ones that need repotting. It will be compost spreading time soon. Picking asparagus every other day now. No orioles yet but jelly has been out. They prefer jelly to oranges. Just one hummingbird so far. Blossoms out on the pawpaws, they are just very small now. Mason bees have been coming in and out of the two houses almost a month now. The full houses go in the barn for the winter in a gauze bag. Love spring!
When when my brother and I were kids, one of our neighbors paid us 5 cents a pound to pick her asparagus after school. She had a huge asparagus patch.
I would get mad at my brother because he always made more money than me- I would miss a LOT of asparagus and he would go back over my part of the patch and pick what I missed. I think his eyes were better than mine.
Today will be the first Asparagus picking for us. I spotted 7 or 8 stalks when I was mowing, yesterday. Enough for a meal, at least. LOVE the stuff!
I miss my 40’ row of it at the other farm but I had a lot more mouths to feed back then. And, amazing as it sounds, one CAN grow tired of Asparagus, LOL!