the winter wheat in the raised beds isn't done yet but the wheat in the half barrels is...so i brought it in before it rains again...oddly the wheat here hasn't been touched by birds at all ( unlike the savaged campus wheat ) and i used no repellents of any kind...so even with the bird sanctuary some of my family are running in the jungle out there i have a complete harvest ( and the attendant hours of threshing and winnowing by hand...no threshing room or oxen here ) staring me in the face...the half barrels will be seeing more herbs planted and when the raised beds are harvested there will be some inoculated cowpeas going in to continue the "green manure" build up of fertility and organic matter in those beds...i'm not certain of the status of that project on campus...if things go the way they appear to be there will be a significant change in the perennial garden project that will pretty much end its use of annuals ( it is about perennials after all ) and plant/replant tubers...moving more towards rootstock perennials and permaculture...however that's dependent on all the variables aligning properly which may or may not occur...as always in a garden, nothing is certain.
the winter wheat in the raised beds isn't done yet but the wheat in the half barrels is...so i brought it in before it rains again...oddly the wheat here hasn't been touched by birds at all ( unlike the savaged campus wheat ) and i used no repellents of any kind...so even with the bird sanctuary some of my family are running in the jungle out there i have a complete harvest ( and the attendant hours of threshing and winnowing by hand...no threshing room or oxen here ) staring me in the face...the half barrels will be seeing more herbs planted and when the raised beds are harvested there will be some inoculated cowpeas going in to continue the "green manure" build up of fertility and organic matter in those beds...i'm not certain of the status of that project on campus...if things go the way they appear to be there will be a significant change in the perennial garden project that will pretty much end its use of annuals ( it is about perennials after all ) and plant/replant tubers...moving more towards rootstock perennials and permaculture...however that's dependent on all the variables aligning properly which may or may not occur...as always in a garden, nothing is certain.
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