twenty-four hours in

silks tell me that there are two nascent teosinte ears out in my back yard...my hope is for more but i will take any i get and be pleased to have them...i don't have any plants in pots this year so there will be no "finishing" in the basement...i do plan to plant seeds in pots outdoors and let them winter over as well as start seed in march...space is at a premium at the moment so there will be a lot of containerized teosinte in 2015 as well as some conventional in-ground plants dotted around the yard...some may go into the bed the alfalfa is gearing up to fix nitrogen in...the periphery of this bed has seen some good results in the past...virtually every plant in that small host of alfalfa plants has developed a true leaf...two more and we should be home free as far as wintering over goes...and we have an alfalfa yardstick to measure our progress in the community garden...more on this as it turns up.