spuds and grains

headed to the community garden early this morning and found the behemoth maize flowering like its counterparts in the back yard...however, this is not the zea i am writing about or why i went out there...

spuds were my concern...last trip i noted four plants that were finishing up and today was harvest...

there were some fair sized tubers down there...

predation caused some loss, to what i have to think was insects since i dug these by hand and they came out of the ground this way...

despite the losses four plants netted five pounds six and a half ounces of a mix of red and german butterball potatoes, including some small drops for seed...better than a pound a plant...the gardener is content...

out back there is a wealth of green zea mexicana ears...

with green seeds...

a few however...

are finishing up...

so it is safe to say, i think, that there will be a harvest of seed this year...

out in the beds the winter wheat i planted last monday has produced a legion of seedlings...so we are off to a good start...

and after a lonely three days of patient waiting the greeter berry in the rye bed...

has rye to meet and greet...next up, garlic...when it gets here...and rye grass at the campus garden.