move 'em out!

as soon as it was warm enough this morning i went out and took the buckets i used to cover the strawberry plants last night and let them back into the sunlight...then i went downstairs...

i did not want to grow potatoes in the basement under the lights...they are not happy there...the light just isn't of a broad enough spectrum for them and the get "leggy"...i only planted them because they had chitted and would have shriveled and died if i had not...it isn't completely pointless...they do produce, small tubers that can be used as seed for an outdoor crop in spring...but these hadn't even gotten that far yet...so...

i took the whole basement population outside into natural light...

the ones i planted in smaller containers as a stop-gap were desperately pot bound, so i loosened their roots...

and planted them each in a larger container as deeply as possible to see exactly what we can achieve through the end of their season...

while i was moving bags of compost i found an earthworm which i happily relocated tot he wheat bed...

finally...this teosinte plant has hit about three feet tall and has also begun to flower...we will see what it does for the rest of the spring out back...there will be more joining it soon as i germinate seed and plant seedlings from the seed i got from the usda...soon enough it will be an all outdoor season...and i can clean the plant room.