i was just out in the back yard checking up on things and the winter wheat in the beds is coming along ( top two and bottom photos) there is tillering going on and the wheat continues to grow and fill in...the weather simply hasn't been cold enough to send it into dormancy yet...the wheat on campus (photos three and four) continues to develop tillers as well and there are now more than five hundred plants up out there...i have a much thicker crop at home than on campus and i am a bit dis appointed by that...the wheat on campus will fill in in the spring and i will be leaving a stand to mature and ripen, but the other part of the plan was to create a cover crop for the soil and in that respect i have had much more success in the backyard than on campus...i used two different batches of seed to begin with and then re-sowed the campus garden with the other seed, but i am not sure if the differing results are from some seed viability issue or if the beds in back afford the wheat a more protected environment for germination...next fall will see the campus garden sown with seed from the summer harvest exclusively...i believe i will grind the remaining grain form this year and make some bread...that will take care of any old seed issues.
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