went to campus again this morning to check on things...you can see in the top photo that the asparagus is in full reproduction mode...three plants have produced seed and some are already on the ground...i am curious to see what will come of that in the spring...the winter wheat is filling in as more germinates...i started some in three inch peat pots in the house and although the green sprouts were only a quarter to three-eights of an inch tall the roots were already out the bottom of the pot...the next two photos were taken a day apart ( yesterday and today) and you can see that the plants are growing, but there's a lot more going on underground as the root systems race to establish themselves before dormancy...the stand that i leave up on campus will fill in rhyzomatically next spring...same for the crop at home...the bottom photo is of eastern gamagrass and zea diploperennis in the northwest indiana autumn...the next step is mulching the yams and asparagus...but the asparagus is till green ( it likes cool weather) so i will be putting that off until it dies back for the season.
No comments:
Post a Comment