bread phase four: rye

the rye has been done for a while...the weather has been dry for a few days...and three days off just turned into two...so today was nominated and elected as harvest day in a very short political process...

it was only thirty-two square feet of rye so it took less than an hour all told to being it in...

the harvest produced three reasonably sized piles of grain...

which became three reasonably sized sheaves of rye that are now in the basement in front of a fan...the wheat yielded, if i remember correctly, eight hundred and forty-four ears...and the threshing and winnowing of the wheat is complete and it did not produce enough to both seed a new bed and make enough flour for whole wheat...so we will be making rye...which should be no problem because, from the way things appear, the rye was far more prolific...that data will be forthcoming as the processing begins...which won't be until later next week...work impinges...

the empty bed is not empty...there is some green there..but no volunteer spuds as in the wheat bed...when those spuds are done i will turn both beds...add compost...and i believe i will switch the rye and wheat into the opposite beds for next season just to see what happens...

off topic as far as grain goes ( but on topic for solanum which is a perennial favorite of mine ) there is bittersweet nightshade growing in the yard...new morphological comparisons...

a spud...

and carolina horse nettle...family resemblance is clear...phase five as it develops.