it is seasonably warm...and dry...although there is rain in the forecast...no surprise there...
none of which has much to do with the emergence of ears of emmer wheat...domesticated around ten thousand years ago...again there is ancient dna in my yard...wheat isn'r especially at home in heat...i planted this in late march and it germinated quickly and grew slowly...it is not the towering size of the rye...or even the hard red winter wheat...
both of which are ripening quickly...i see a harvest next month...the emmer will go on a bit longer...and, while the einkporn is robust, there is still no sign of those ancient ears...
there are at least ten new maize plants up back there...
and in a matter of two days the rabbit gnawed maize has again shown resilience that i did not expect...
the northern tepehaun teocintli i caged with chicken wire is finally showing new growth...with such a long season expecting seed this year seems overly optimistic..still...we will wait and see what happens...
the zea mays mexicana seems to hold not interest for the rabbits...i have put down a repellent...i am told this is a fool's errand...did it anyway..again, we will see...
the grapes are moving along..
while mulberry drupes are ripening on the tree...
ripe ones are littering the ground...waiting for the birds...
spud row is coming along well...though if the temperatures remain warm i am skeptical of back yard blooms...
the jerusalem artichokes continue their colonizing path while the strawberries stubbornly defend their turf and look for new land to colonize outside the bed...which is bringing them into conflict with the lemon balm...the nietzschian struggles continue...
and the egyptian walking onions...epitomized by the brute defying the jerusalem artichokes...are producing copious numbers of aerial bulbs and are blooming to engender seed...dna across the yard continues to be relentless...ends justify means seemingly...and the means..from clones to seeds to bulbs to stolons are all in play.
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