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I was up early this morning, talking with Tony and Helen on the Garden Show @ RadioLive, about moon planting, Venus and her imminent transit, log-fires, artichokes and liquid feeding with seaweed soups. Last night we visited friends and sat by their fire, eating wonderful German baking and equally wonderful Pommy beetroot-and-chocolate square. We watched a film about an Irish island and the story of a selkie, then walked home up the hill, under the moonlight, the serious moonlight...
It was quite balmy.

Asparagus on RadioLIVE

I'm talking with Tony Murrell at 7:20 am today about asparagus.
I find the suggestion from the old asparagus growers, to use 'salt hay' to mulch the asparagus bed, most interesting. I have salt hay, harvested estuarine grass, usually spartina, readily available and within wheelbarrow range and have used it in the past, though I'm mindful of the role it plays in the estuary and don't want to deplete on a whim.
I have a javelin also :-)