the bed of winter wheat i planted last month is filling in well...
in the bed i planted nine days ago, the rye...
looks to be doing fine...while the wheat side of the bed...
is looking a bit thin...hopefully this will improve if the weather holds...
back in the first bed the sweet clover is coming up as well...wouldn't expect a lot of activity from this until next spring...a slow starter, it produces small yellow blooms that some find "sweet"...
in the zea world the zea mexicana is still pursuing its autumn droop...
the plants have a multitude of green ears and seeds...
although more of the ears are turning a tan color and shattering...which is only natural...
so far i have harvested three hundred and thirty seeds with an unknown quantity on the ground around the plants...i have been dividing the seeds into lots to use for next season's crop and to freeze for the future..just in case there is a catastophic failure one year...we will have back up seed...
all the ears and seeds on the northern tepehuan plants are green...and seen to be in no hurry to mature...we will see if they do before a frost terminates the race...
hardy souls that they are the native berries out there continue to bloom and produce fruit this far into autumn...they will stop that with the frost however they will remain green under the snow...we will look in february or so just to see...
this may look like just the stubble it is...
underneath there is a multitude of robust tubers however...these and a few more along with a frying pan and some canola oil and there will be lunch...
we are moving around front ( where all the showy flowers are ) to have a look at some exemplary workers...hard at it this deep into fall.
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