162 days ago...

...i found three native berries trying to blom in what was a warm month given it was december...

so i moved them into the basement under the lights...

where, to date, they have produced eleven fully fledged berries and have two in cooking...

as well as a healthy daughter plant...well...it is a coolish overcast day at the end of may and it's high time for them to return to the wild...

so i set the pots out in their new home where i will leave them for a day or two to harden off before i replant them a hundred or so feet away from where they were last year...

they also developed a couple of nearly four foot long stolons down there as well...more daughters?

close by the berries' new home a chinese yam, whith healthy looking leaves, has extended the length of the bed on a trellis of twine ( and you amy notice the walking onions and the ominously vertical jeruasalem artichokes aren't having too shabby a season so far either )...

the rye is in full flower...

ears of black tip wheat are emerging...

bees are buzzing and mugging the winter vetch....

and, a fine note to end on, the mooseberry bush has sprouted two more leaves...so far it's all good.