back in olden times when i was much younger the farmers around here would plant their fields in winter wheat in the autumn and turn it under in spring as a green manure...i simply want to grow a bed of winter wheat, mostly for seed...last time i tried in the winter of 2016-2017 there was a singular lack of snowfall and so the crop died of cold because there was no insulation covering it...so..i would like to see some snow this time around...i had already cleared a bed for the wheat so i turned it again and then hoed and raked it...
then i took a couple of handfuls of ( allegedly...who really knows? ) organic non-gmo hard red winter wheat...
and broadcast it into the bed a bit more sparsely than i did the spring wheat...i overdid that and it squelched the productivity..so i will hope for some rhizomatic spread instead...
next i cleared the bed that had held the disappointing spring wheat for, i hope, a better crop of winter rye...after about forty minute's work i had cleared and turned the bed, added compost, and hoed the bed...
i had threshed and winnowed some of the rye from the small stand i had this year and that was broadcast into the bred as well...
there has been three quarters of an inch of rain in my back yard this month so the soil in the beds was moist...i would like these seeds to germinate as quickly as possible so i took the garden hose and watered...with no rain in the forecast for the next few days we will be keeping an eye on that...
after i finished planting i brought in some hot peppers and the first jerusalem artichokes of the season...found some fair sized tubers in the bed...looks like a good crop...now i am pondering lunch.
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