the chinese yams ( top photo ) are producing robust vines and are making thorough use of the trellis already...it may require expansion before season's end...the asparagus on the west side of the garden ( second photo ) is over three feet tall and will be "ferning" soon...i harvested some spears today ( the season isn't over...i just let the big ones go too long )and there should be more into next month and there will probably be an autumn harvest as well since this is pretty much these plant's last season...i did find a surprise lurking about the garden in several places however and it involves intermediate wheat grass and asparagus..apparently removing the stand of wheat grass and replacing it with a potato patch has allowed enough sunlight to filter to the garden floor for some naturalized asparagus seed to germinate and take root...perhaps this is a chance to dig some year old crowns out of the pgp and move a piece of it along in the autumn...where is the salient question...i am not sanguine about the drainage in the community garden and asparagus hates wet feet...there are raised beds there however and that may save them...the community garden needs some perennials...they are a hallmark of sustainability and can be intercropped closely after the first few seasons of root development...we will see come 2015.
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