it's october and the season is drawing to a close...the weather is fairly mild...the tomatoes in the back yard are ripening and the teosinte ears arc still cooking along...i have been looking into frost cloth and thinking about how to drape a ten foot plant without doing a lot of damage...hopefully that won't be necessary but it is plan b if the seeds aren't quite done when frost is forecast...the cowpeas are still producing pods but some of the foliage is starting to die back...they will run their course soon and that will signal the time to harvest the jerusalem artichokes...you can see in the fourth photo that they have begun to die back in earnest....i will be taking out the plants themselves soon ( not this weekend though...i have a paper to write) and will begin the big dig when the pulses are done...i was on campus yesterday evening and just reached down around the base of one of the plants and puled out four tubers...took them home and ate a couple of them raw and steamed the other two and added some butter and garlic...fine meal...i will be experimenting with some new sunchoke based dishes as well as annoying the purists by frying them in oil and dousing them with garlic salt...it is ,after all, my diet...the last photo is a panorama of the perennial garden project at about four twenty in the afternoon on october fourth (happy birthday andrea) as the shadows lengthened...more harvest news, storage project news, and a first look at the cover crop/nitrogen reservoir sustainability project in the next few weeks.
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