another busy weekend of garden work...first off the Zea diploperennis i put into peat pellets on thursday has taken off and is doing well...sixteen plants now from one to one-and-a-half inches tall and turning green at the ends ( even though the flash from the camera obscures it in the photo )...i started the Zea perennis last week and i put three of them into peat pellets this morning so the perennial strains have started...i started the germinating process on the northen tepehuan teosinte yesterday and the other big piece of teosinte news is that after a week the Zea mexicana is finnaly germinating...at last an annual strain which is a bit of a relief...first hurdle cleared...a few more days on the heating mat and we'll see how it does in the peat pellets...this is all abit later in coming about than i had hoped, but there will be warmer weather ahead and that should help both the teosinte and tomatoes...they will be able to move into the garden and the potted teosinte i will be growing at home can move out as well...once they're firmly established i can turn my attention to flowering, pollenating, and seeding... i do have some support in this...dr. mary eubanks from duke university has been overwhelmingly kind in offering advice for the (polite) asking, and dr. forgey has always been the fire under the boiler...thanks to both of them
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