down in the basement puddle's kids are "leggy" but robust and seem to be getting along well with their onion friends...they are firmly rooted which bodes well fro an extended season come spring and a move outdoors...
the mashua down there is all coming along well and each plant is evincing new growth...there is hope for winter tubers for spring planting..and the yacon ensconced with the largest of the mashua is looking fairly lush considering it has never seen actual sunlight...we may have tubers..or rhizomes...from that plant for spring as well...
i have been sporting this year's haul of teocintli seed by size and color...there seems to be a correlation between the two with the larger seeds being darker which, i think, can be attributed to the larger seeds having a denser endosperm which will, i hope, mena better viability..i have 182 out of what must amount to around 1000 seeds that look most promising...i will be freezing some and keeping some out for a germination tests later next year...if they sprout they will be in the yard come april...
finally, i was out running around this morning and drove past the former corn field behind the field behind the big box stores and was struck by a couple of things...there has been some precipitation here of late and it has collected in a low spot in the field and frozen...if the changing climate and weather patterns ( tell me they are not an i will mark you down as insensate to your environment ) brings an increase in liquid ( as opposed to frozen ) precipitation ( which likelihood my rain gauge is supporting ) this may be another spot to keep an eye on erosion from...then again...with a cell phone tower planted firmly by the farmer's outbuildings and suburbia encroaching from the other side the field may be "improved and developed" before any substantiating data can be compiled...the industrial food feed stock this field provides may soon have to be imported from brazil or argentina...hot pockets extruded from south american cereals.
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