Babies, Bamboo, and Trenches

My baby (all 6'4" of him) was back in town with his babies for a short kamikaze trip.  Yesterday morning we cut some bamboo (legally and with permission) from a neighbors yard, and hauled it back home.  Think earlier pic, but 10x as much.  Barely fit in the trunk this time.  It was fun driving thru town with 15' of green hanging out of the trunk and watching peoples heads turn. Simple things.

The trench... Long and shallow... sorta like a quickie grave.

 But instead of bodies, asparagus, on a 2" mixture of peat and compost. Yes, the long stringy things are asparagus roots that attach to the crown, where all the goodness comes from.  The bodies are staying in the chest freezer down stairs... for now.

 Covered and tamped.

Put about 2 inches of soil on top of the roots.  Wait till they start to pop up thru the dirt, and add another 2 inches, repeat till a 2 inch hill above ground level.  Not going to build a box around these, (after i already cut out and sealed all the pieces) but instead going to lay down some 2x3 beams around the patch to delineate it and make it easier to mulch.  The 6" box was too much for right now.  Gotta fill the other bed so I can get my tomatoes, peppers, eggplant, beans, etc in the ground.

Now the wait... 2 years... will continue to buy asparagus at the MennoMart on the end of town.

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