Beside the Stream

These are asparagus spears on May 8, growing in an eight-year-old bed that is nearing the height of production.  Peg has a big market garden, and her asparagus is locally famous.  

This is the same bed 2 months later.  This patch yielded 125 pounds of spears that sold for $10 a pound.  They were exceptional asparagus spears, and now the ferns are six feet tall. 

Peg sells iris rhizomes, potted penstemons, and pansies in her salad mix.  This is her commercial flower bed on May 8, and

here are those same rows two months later, after selling 125 penstemon in pots.  The iris get harvested next, and the pansies are sold every week with her greens.  

You wouldn’t look at this garden and think it’s an easy living.   But Peg says:  I love my life.   And you can tell she means it.