i was on campus this morning about thirteen hours after i finished my liguistic anthropology mid-term ( that there will be a grade is, i think, a foregone conclusion...what it may be is open to question) because the extended forecast tells me the weather is due to warm up and i wanted to get some cycles of cold into the northern tepehuan teosinte to break its dormancy...so i turned forty pounds of composted cow manure in to the old potato bed fom last year and put about half my packet of seeds in ...i saved the other half to put in here at home....after i scour the raised bed one more time for stray jerusalem artichokes...i also re-established a cordon of bird-tape over the winter wheat...i put some over the teosinte bed as well, although i can't see any but the hungriest of local birds trying to open one of those...they appear to be mostly a tough seed coat with little seed...this is a completely different approach from last year...no soaking inhydrogen peroxide to break dormancy...no germinating in damp paper towels in baggies...no nurturing on the heat mat in peat pots...no grow light...biological function in the great outdoors or no teosinte...it can't be a significantly worse season than the last one...it would be a difference of only one plant...the true opening day will be soon...by the end of the month the mulch will come off the asparagus and chinese yams...the beets, trunips, and rutabegas will go in...and we'll see what develops...
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