a berry moving day

the berries and the company they brought in with them from outside in december seemed to be cohabiting with the spuds without any tennant stress going on...

however, since the berries are thriving they are putting out stolons in an effort to establish a colony in favorable conditions...they ( there are four original plants that came in...all related ) want daughters and will not be put off forever...

so i cleared off the cart wich has its own light attached ( after some plant room rearranging ) and put the berries and comapny in the cneter of their own world...

then i filled a peat pot with compost and worm castings which i doused with some worm "tea" from the worm bin...

after which i took the longest of the escaping stolons...and the only one actually long enought work with...and pinned it in the peat pot...the cental location of the original plants wil allow placement of pinned stolons all around them and, soon enough, there will be a colony...

the original tennants have some berries just starting out...

one cooking...

and a couple that are done...given conditions it is reasonable to expect more.

ah...winter

temperatures are resonable for february...however the low ( per the national weather service ) is forecast to fall between +2 and -11 ( farhenheit ) tonight...

this month has put paid to the snow drought...

i am reasonably convinced the winter wheat and rye have enough insulation now...and one would think the spring melt will provide enough soil moisture for the season's start...

the teosinte ears i left out there have mostly shattered...we will see if they germinate in a few months...i have a multitude of seeds from this past season so there will will be zea...

downstairs we still have spuds...

and blooms...

and berries...

and stolons seeking a destination...time to find a daughter a home.

seasonal: a definition

after a december and january that were both dry ( mostly ) and above freezing ( mostly )...

winter...or what i would term winter weather...has returned to the area with snow in the fields and zub zero ( fahrenheit ) lows forcast over the next few days...and those have been absent for a few years...

the winter wheat and rye finally have some insulating snow cover...

there is garlic under there somewhere...

a few brave onions are breaking surface...

brave not because of the cold, but rather because rabbits are prowling and they may get that hungry...

down in the basement the spuds are doing well...

and the berries and their grassy cohabitants are looking robust...

berries are cooking...

new blooms are opening...

and new buds are coming along...i notice that outdoors there is always an irruption of blooms after a rain so, clearly, water is a significant element..so i have been watering the berries far more than i would usually do with any indoor plant and it seems to be working...more berry newas at it opens up.