the artichokes are in the mail

i have word from winslow maine to day that the jeruasalem atrichokes have shipped and that i should expect to see the in three to eight days...good news, it means that i can finish up the autumn planting on halloween day...set the artichokes and gama grass in and, if the weather co-operates, mulch the garden for winter...then i can step back, do some more reading about organics and gardening ( Botany for Gardeners repraches me every time i see it in a pile of books...demands to be read) and hypotheses about the origins of agriculture and peice together what direction this all will take...the few months between autumn planting and the start of seed germination may seem like they'd be quiet ones but from a practical and theoretical standpoint there's too much to do to stand still.