weather

not that this is a photo of the garden ( more like the bed on the south side of the house and the most vicious ferral rose bush this side of the mississippi even though it looks benign in this image )...but it gets across the point that the weather is not co-operating with what remains to be done in the garden...i harvested four more jerualem artichokes last wednesday after work...they produced two hundred and twelve tubers among them...the ones planted in the main row about a foot apart only yielded only an average of forty-four tubers compared with the seventy plus average of the outlying plants...a dearth of room to expand perhaps...i still have six sunchokes to harvest as well as yams and asparagus to mulch for winter and the rest of the cowpea plants to pull up for compost...and i'm writing a paper about the experience ( actualy the results) for an anthropology course...seems things never come to an end...it has been really an enjoyable season for all that...i have already received the seeds for next season's annual root crops...so as soon as this season is put to bed there's that to plan for...the weather is supposed to clear up this coming week and be warm enough to finish the sunchoke harvest and get them in the ground in my backyard for the storage experiment...i think we'll be done by the end of the month...enough time to read up on some botany before next spring...more stuff as it is unearthed.