It was a little brisk
When I went to work this morning it was -26ºC(-15ºF). I tell you, spring was the furthest thing from my mind. When I got off work in the early afternoon it had warmed up to -7ºC(19ºF). The sun was out and finally had a lot of heat to it.
I started thinking about the garden.
I rushed home, collected the three eggs and gave the girls some water, and rushed to the computer to see if a whale had upvoted anything of mine.
No such luck. Looks like I am going to have to start growing some food.
I went back to the grow/worm room and started to build a mix of potting soil. I had my supervisors there, so I couldn't screw around. They mean business.
(Tubs is the enforcer, and Skins knows how to keep things running smoothly.)
I grew some asparagus from old seed and planted them in straight worm castings, but they were showing roots in the bottom, so I figured I had better re-pot them. The problem was that I was going to run out of worm castings if I didn't mix them off.
I started with 1 part worm castings and a good sprinkling of baked and ground eggshells.
I then added 1 part each of perlite and vermiculite.
And then I added 2 parts peat moss, but I think you can add whatever type of organic soil amendment you want. I'm just going by a few things I have read that say not to put much more than 20% vermicompost in your potting soil.
Then I re-potted the asparagus.
I guess now is a good time to tell you I have no gardening experience, and the asparagus is just a project I am trying on a whim.
My thoughts are that I can grow the crowns out to two or three years worth under lights in the house, then I can possibly harvest them next year. I'm hoping, anyhow. I'm open to constructive advice from anyone who actually knows what they are doing. Just pop it down there in the comments and I will study it for a while.
I had a bunch of soil left over
You probably didn't hear about The Great Catnip Debacle of 2017, so I won't go into it right now, but I decided I would start breaking up the root system and potting some of them.
This is what I started with.
This is what we have at the end. About seven of them. Now we just have to find friends with cats to give them away to.
Wait a minute, I think one is missing!
Oh good, now they might not notice me watching 
