Gardening 2015

Reaching for the sky just like trees, the kings of the jungle!

Nice shot, happy harvesting.
 
You know how, in this socialist state that I live in, people are bone lazy, don't care to work and just want the state to pay for their needs, right?

A 21 year old kid has just started an asparagus farm next to me.
He started out small scale ( 1600 plants) when he was 15, and has several restaurants and groceries as customers now, so he decided to expand.
Leased 2 acres from my neighbour hog farmer and designed his own Asparagus planting machine.
In 3 years I'll be able to buy all the fresh asparagus I can eat from him.

So nice to see that there is some entrepreneurial spirit in some of the young ones, still:)
 
Asparagus seems like a good crop to help reduce labor intensity, since planting a crop is good for quite a number of years. What is it, something like three years before you get much of a harvest.
 
Yes three years of looking but not touching.
Then ten so so years of trouble free eating. First vegetable of the year on the plate.
 
It was Grandpa's. He liked to garden, vegetables anyway.

Asparagus grows like a weed here. Ditch banks and next to the river.

My favorite bar used to put on an asparagus fry every year. Just go down to the valley and pick a 5 gallon bucket!
 
Awesome. We have a few patches of "wild" asparagus in these parts, not much though.
 
You can pick all you want in these parts.

Finally! Something I have that youse guys that live in nicer climates dont have!

I was starting to wonder why anyone would live up here!

My crabapple tree is fooked though. It is in full bloom right now, about two weeks early. The wild bees are not around yet, so I dont think it will get polinated properly. I was going to ask the bee people who lease my land, but they are in a panic because they are two weeks early taking their bees to Washinton. They have no bees to spare.
It was beautifully polinated last year by wild bees, then it got hailed out. No jelly for another year. This year looks bad too.

I stood outside and watched it get hailed out last July, turning the air blue with curse words. It pissed me off more than the thought of my crops getting wiped out. For a little while anyway!
 
Jim, I remember that from living in Idaho.
It was a wonder to a Scandinavian kid.
Just go out along the irrigation ditches and pick as many as you want.
In fact I ate so many that it took soime years before I really had a taste for them again.

Same thing happened with avocadoes in Israel.
 
You have to pace yourself!

Same thing happens with cherries. They call them Flathead cherries.

They dont grow here, but a simple drive through the Blackfeet reservation will yeild gallons of cherries.
All the indian kids sell them for pennies on the side of the road. They are so good, you can easily make yourself sick.
 
Yeah that's a damn fine looking plate of food, I've never seen asparagus that thick.
 
My farmer neighbour had the plastic on all but one of his greenhouses wiped out in a heavy snow. The asparagus in the still functioning greenhouse must come up to picking by at least three weeks or so earlier than the plants now growing out in the open. So, if you want early asparagus, a greenhouse does sure help. I don't know if there are taste differences, he gives me some now and then, but I can't judge. The out in the open stuff might taste sweeter.

That definitely looks like a French country table at Mick's place, that little treatment at the end on the edge, and the general atmosphere is quite distinctive. He'll probably say it's English now. :lol:
 
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