Daddy Duck and the crew put in 200 asparagus plants this past weekend. The asparagus plants were bundled as bare roots and shipped via Fedex. This is what they looked like:
In the weeks beforehand, Monkey Man and Mr. C had dug about ten long trenches to put them in. The trenches were 8" deep and 18" wide. Some went as long as 30 or so feet. My boys are digging machines!
Such hard work necessitated a lot of drink breaks. Especially when there was Mountain Dew.
To plant the asparagus, they took each crown, spread out the tentacle-like roots, and covered them with soil. They were careful to leave a little tip or two of the crowns peeking out. As they grow taller, we will fill in the trenches with more soil until they're level with the ground around them.
These won't be ready to harvest until next year, but I know they will be worth the wait!
The pump is really cool. It holds a cartridge of insulin, and there is a tiny tube that connects to Sugar Baby's skin. We change the tube (moving it around to different sites on her body) every three days. Now, instead of getting shots every morning, and for every meal, we just test her blood sugar (like before) and tell the pump how many carbs she'll be eating. The pump calculates how much insulin she will need for that meal, we confirm, and then it sends it to her through the tube.
The pump can give insulin in much tinier increments than a syringe, so that helps with getting just the right amount and keeping her blood sugar under better control.
