it's autumn and, as you'd suspect, things are slowing down some out back...they have not stopped though...the winter wheat i planted ten days ago is filling in pretty well...looking for a second leaf soon...
even the berries i tossed into the beds on the equinox have begun to surgace germinate...so the first phase of wheat is a success...
an even dozen of the forty odd garlic cloves i planred have broken surface...their allium cousins the walking onions are up in such profusion i could fill a post without showing the same plant twice...i will refrain...
the field peas continue to bloom and are producing pods...the race with the first frost and seed viability is on...we will see...
while we are talking seed, teosinte ears continue to separate from the stems and mature...the tillers on the plants are laying down away from the parent plants to spread seed at a distance and increase the future colony's range...or, at least, that is what they would do in the wild...i am skeptical of the seed's ability to withstand local cold and be viable in the spring so i imagine we will be germinating and planting come april...we will be leaving some seed out her however, just to see what transpires...
the growths erupting from the behemoth maize continue to expand...they are not soft but rather feel as if there is a cob contained in them...it will be of interest to se what the contents might be when the growth stops...
finally, it is the end of september and the jerusalem artichokes are about finished...so i popped one up and grabbed a few tubers from the root ball...an adjunct to lunch perhaps.
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