there's a freeze warning ( as opposed to a frost warning) in effect for these parts until 10:00 am tomorrow so i decided to bring in all the teosinte ears...forty-four in all...because they weren't going to get much farther along the road to maturity..i suspect that none of these seeds are viable ( not that that will stop me form planting some next march just to see ) and i really didn't expect to get this far in these northern latitudes...so i am pleased and a bit disappointed by turns..i have more seeds for northern tepehuan teosinte and for zea diploperennis so there will be more of each next year...and probably some maize as well to go along with the red nordlands and their "wild and weedy" ancestors...i am a bit concerned about the winter wheat, although it shrugged off the frost this morning and just kept cooking along...some of it is nearly four inches tall and i am sure the roots are deeper than that...it's not afraid of cold weather but it needs to be a bit bigger before it goes dormant...i went out and bought cow manure, stakes, and burlap today...a couple of bales of straw and i will be ready to mulch the garden and put the apple trees to bed for winter...still a couple of weeks of work ahead outside...then it's back to the books and articles until march...it never really stops,, but it keeps me occupied with something interesting and utilitarian...what more could you ask? only one thing, and that's just not possible...time to be content with what is.
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