went to campus this morning to collect some turnips that were done...six altogether...there are more but it will be a few more weeks before they're ready...a total edible weight of 799 grams ( i got to officially use the food scale i got for christmas for its intended purpose )...i used some cowpea seeds that i harvested from the plants i grew last season to start the second generation of green manures with the idea of not adding any more organic matter to the garden beyond what i grow there...no more outside compost ( well...beyond what i use to mulch the yams and asparagus in thr fall...around forty pounds or so )...as self-sustaining a plot as i can make it with a rotation of green manures and cover crops ( winter wheat most likely)...the gamagrass is doing well although i culled a jerusalem artichoke from the bunch closest to hawthorne hall today...that's eighty-one of those devils and counting...that puts the actual total of last year's tuber production at over nine hundred...solve the storage issue and you have a staple that cannot be stopped...bottom photo is of the jerusalem artichokes taking hold and begining to rise over the spinach ( which i believe i will let go to seed so i have some for next season or perhaps a fall planting) there's movement because the dialectic says there must be...the changes will fly by all season.
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