zea day

i put forty heirloom maize kernels in to soak yesterday...and the morado purple clearly made its presence known in the water...

this morning i planted them in four beds around the yard...

including this one they will be sharing with some strawberries making their escape from the south bed...

more of the teosinte i soaked last week had declared itself ready to plant so i put it in the established beds ( more on that directly ) and i planted some in the maize beds as well...traditional agriculturalists in mexico say they plant the "wild and weedy" maize ancestor at the edges of their fields because it makes their maize "stronger"...who am i to argue with that...we will run with their wisdom...

and these are tesointe seedlings that survived the 1.6" of rain that bucketed sown in a half an hour day before yesterday and are greening up and preparing to leaf...the gardener is pleased.