puttering

it is a fairly quiet time of year however i invested some time from a day off to wander around the basement...

where the spuds i have planted under the lights down there...

have stems...

and leaves that are greening up...so an indoor season well underway...

while outside in the yard where it is "unseasonably warm" even after a couple of hard freezes...

and what the drought monitor calls "abnormally dry" with this being the rainfall total for the month...in my yard at least...

none of which would seem to have had a negative impact on the garlic...

the egyptian walking onions...

the winter wheat and rye...

or a cpuple of dandelions i found out by the alley...winter seems to be hesitating...we will see for how long...and to what magnitude...

zea mexicanan ears are opening and shattering...

i took a handful of seed that looked reasonably viable from one...

which i broadcast and raked into a known patch of open space ( after i removed the catalpa tree pod ) just to see what comes of it in spring...perhaps nothing...perhaps a pleasant surprise...we'll see...

finally, for anyone who might be interested, this swhat the 2345 zea mexicana seeds i harvested this year looks like...i will be sorting them, mostly by color, saving some to germinate and plant in spring, and freezing the rest...more on that later.