the backyard season is moving along...the radishes are done and the turnips are just about finished...the winter wheat in the half barrels is done and ready to be harvested...i am a bit puzzled...i used bird tape on campus and the starlings savaged the crop...i just turned it loose here and...nothing...with all the habitat left in the half-cleared jungle you'd think it would be open season...but i get to thresh and winnow the whole crop instead...the hopi blue maize in the second photo isn't as tall as the engineered corn in farmer brown's field, but it is coming along...the snow peas are producing pods now that they've flowered and i have already harvested some for salads...the fourth photo is of the kohlrabi that's come up and will be done later this summer...the bottom photo is red nordland potatoes in the back with snow peas, turnips, sunflowers, and, perhaps, a stray squash...there ar e apple trees in there too...so far so good...except for the brussels sprouts...and it's not just me...lots of complaints about the lack of those critters and some folks are having difficulties with sunflowers as well...as one sage put it. "maybe it's just not a brussels sprouts year"...stuff like that happens...a passing "scattered thundershower" is giving my garden just a tease of rain right now ( after i have watered here and on campus )..a tease won't do it...for me or the industrial folks...an all day soaking rain is in order...maybe on the fourth.
6-16-2012 8:10 p.m.
okay...the storms have organized themselves a bit and it looks ( on the national weather service web site radar )like we might get a bit of drought relief this evening...a bit before the fourth...and just about in time for farmer brown.
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