A Gardener's Diary

[Monksdream]

March 15-I was thinking this morning with the cold and the wind that in 2015 at about the same time I transplanted 10 Jersey Knight asparagus crowns in a bed a I built next to the ledge. I thought they wouldn't make it. But they did. All 10 of them. Unfortunately that bed is destroyed, thanks to Ali and crew moving all the buildings, ground up asphalt. The other bed of Precoce d'Argenteuil did survive. More spears appear nearly every day. The cold, though, will kill most of them. But they'll return next season.

In fact, I ordered more of this asparagus variety from Baker Creek, along with a packet of Cherokee Purple tomato seed, and that curious Toothache Plant.

I didn't feel like digging, hammering, sawing, so I took buses to get seed starting mix, some food, and coffee grinds from Starbucks. The 19S took me to Park Road Shopping Center, a high tone complex on the road to even tonier Ballantyne. I came back to the farm with the mix, and a packet of Long Purple eggplant for Ali, who says he wants some long, skinny eggplants.

CC the Calico Cat sat in my lap for the second day. She doesn't actually sit. She squirms. Her personality has changed so much.

At home, I seed the Rosa Bianca eggplant seeds in 20 cups, then added 12 more in the evening. I will have to up pot some seedlings, which are becoming leggy. The warm is so warm the Cherokee Purple tomato plants in the flat are suffering. They will return to the greenhouse Friday morning, if not Thursday, which isn't supposed to go below freezing.