i have been hauling water into the pgp by the gallon this summer ( in what i can construe as only a reiteration that the university wants this garden gone the ground crew has failed to energize the water spigot by the garden that i have traditionally used...so be it...my already adversarial relationship with the bean counting bureaucracy deepens ) and the limited amount i can cart in ( or am willing to cart in ) has led to an experiment of necessity where some of the plants are going to be surviving ( or not ) on what moisture nature provides...for the most part i have suspended watering the deeply rooted perennials...the asparagus likes water, but not wet feet...it had a root system far deeper than its height above ground and can tap a lot of moisture so it shouldn't be in any trouble...the chinese yams ( second photo ) weren't harvested last autumn so they had a fair reservoir of moisture and energy to start the season with and have reached the bulb production stage without any visible signs of stress...the eastern gamagrass in the bottom photo is a native used to dry spells in the indiana summer...it also sits in the closest approximation of a sump in the garden since it is on the low end where moisture collects naturally..it too is reproducing robustly and i don't see a great threat to its season...the season goes on whether there is intentional interference with its continuation or not...water out of the spigot ids remarkably cheap and i have the means to deliver it to the garden...and i get to collect some ( if it occurs ) water stress data...thank the bureaucrats for me next time you see them.
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