As another Lame Cherry exclusive in matter anti matter.
TL took me on an adventure in gathering apple seeds, inside the apples, on an abandoned farm place of people we knew. As the tree grew on the road there was not much outlawing about it, as you pick up apples that have fallen and are on your way.
Going south, I spotted asparagus seeds on several female plants and as ......a real asshole cousin, either stole, destroyed or ate the asparagus seeds I had left on my Grandpa's counter top, I was two years behind on seeds.
As in all things I tell TL, "You can never get away with crime as the unexpected happens", no sooner do we start picking berries in the ditch, making this legal, but out pops the mistress of the manner, a Baptist, trying to keep her ass not fat, with two dogs, who immediately start barking at me. I was not paying much attention as I was picking berries, and when I looked up, the woman was trudging the other way. I was just glad I did not get my ass chewed or chewed on by dogs.
The bag we got probably was 200 berries, which means 800 to 1000 seeds. That is allot of asparagus and I think I will try to sprout them next spring, till up an area to seed the seedlings into and have a forest of asparagus ferns in two years.
I have no idea where they came from as they do grow wild here. There is a sort of "I will kill you if you invade my wild asparagus patch" cult here. Is great fun to mark plants and pick wild asparagus. I have a patch outside of town that no one else ever touches. Nice big male plants, and with what Grandpa has, we have too much of the stuff, so it is not too bright to be planting more of the stuff we could never eat. It is though what is in me, the planting in hope and making this deteriorating world a better place.
I actually put in our patch (I think the mother sprayed my original with pesticide and killed it with the rhubarb) about 3 years ago. Ordered from online, and the plants were all small. They are doing better, but I got a refund, and yes I have some red berries on these male plants, so Chinese quality control as usual does not exist. It is one we have not picked from as we have enough of the other. Our June was hot this year and dry, so that meant the asparagus was woody early and it was time to stop picking, so we did not get that big of harvest. Is ok as it was enough, compared to years when we are unable to eat it all.
So will see how God blesses in a long row of this stuff and if HAARP chems stop killing most things, these seeds I have will be producing for a generation.
OK for those who do not know how to pick asparagus, this is what my old man taught me and it works. You run your index finger up a shoot, held at an angle by your thumb. When you get past the woody part, the shoot snaps and you have a stalk which you can eat, instead of spitting fibers.
I still like asparagus fresh and not cooked.
Crime does not pay. Neither does asparagus, but you can't wait around forever for Robins to shit out a patch of asparagus on your property.
- Lame Cherry
Nuff Said
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