i was on campus this evening for a class and since i had some time beforehand i went by the garden...the temperatures have been alternating between points above and below freezing and i wanted to see if the landscaping staples i have used to hold the fabric down were being heaved up...things look fine...the technique worked out well last year and is doing so again...no loose ends flapping or straw blowing around...the eastern gamagrass needed to be at least eigth inches tall to store enough carbohyrates for spring growth ( that's what the university of missouri extention tells me anyway) so though it looks pretty dead it should be fine for spring ( i certainly hope so...out of the thirty seeds i planted in the fall of 2009 only those three germinated...i am told [u of m again] that once started gamagrass is alot like jerusalem artichokes in its tenacity...starting is the difficult part...the rest is apparently natural)...winter wheat is poking up through the snow...we'll be using some bird tape in an an effort to keep the starlings off our grain...we'll see how that works out...things in the garden seem about right for the eighteenth of january...supposedly colder weather is on the way towards the weekend...if things stay halfway moderate until friday i may try to dig some tubers up and eat them...stay tuned.
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