the lone remaining apple tree seems to be doing alright...it is growing at a much slowe rate than its now departed sibling ( the seeds came from the same apple....what could they be but siblings?)...it ha sproduced six leafs ( leaves?) amd has topped one inch in height...a quarter inch in two weeks...so there is growth since i removed the grass from the tree's domain ( it was barnyardgrass if i haven't said so...noxious weed...it is no more...human intervention in the lives of plants...what domestication...and agriculture, for that matter...is all about)...i have been collecting seeds as i eat apples ( along with sunflower seeds for breakfast most days) and i have twenty-five of them in damp paper towels in baggies awaiting some sort of movememnt towards germination ( none yet) so i am still working on the nacent orchard as a project for the off season in the gardens...the campus garden will be growing annual root crops this next season to comapre with the productivity of the perennials from last season ( still struggling with the rationale behind the annualization of staple crops...accepted wisdom seems to be that annuals channel more energy into reproduction and so produce more food [ since, if you think about it, the reproductive systems are what gets eaten] the jerusalem artichokes put paid to that idea for me....there has to be a reason out there...what is it?) anyway, the home garden will be a riot of potatoes, jerusalem artichokes ( they will be in the campus garden too...how not? so will chinese yams) chinese yams , asparagus (also on campus), tomatoes, peppers, elephant garlic, beets, turnips, rutabegas, winter and spring wheat ( those are going on campus as well) and some apple trees if all goes well...it will be a busy year, but that's fine...we all need something to distract us from our issues and problems...i've found something non-chemical that provides a steady buzz to drown out the existential hum...all that miserable background noise that life throws up...i am fine, thanks for asking, how are you? hope your buzz does the trick.
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