it is the day before autumn...overcast...the temperature is just shy of sevventy degres ( fahrenheit )...and time to start planting garlic...
a bought a pound of seed garlic of various varieties and started with a bulb of chesnok red-purple stripe...the bulb rendered ten cloves for planting...i surmise there will be quite a few more cloves in the pound...
i extended an existing bed on the south side of the jerusalem artichokes an turned in some compost before working it with a warren hoe...
i planted each clove, pointy side up, withthe tops about an inch below the surface...because garlic is a heavy feeder i dressed each planting with some worm castings and will doubtlessly be dressing the bed with compost as the season progresses...there wil be more plantings in the traditional garlic bed by the intermediate wheat grass and this bed will probably expand again soon...depends on how many cloves i actualy have to plant yet...
in other news around the yard, mooseberry is doing well and will have garlic company soon enough...
the winter wheat is filling in...most have two leaves and a number have three...
the winter rye is doing as well and most have two leaves so the grain beds are established for the winter...all we need is snow...
last august the old elm tree in the northeast corner of the back yard...which had been hit by lightening at least once...gave up the ghost in a storm and fell acrosst the alley ( knocking down my power line )...
dryad's saddles cropped up feeding on the tree carcass...however the whole "giving up the ghost" thing was premature..
a late summer irruption of twigs and leaves are doing their best to feed the roots...
life goes on...
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