october 2021 here has seen tempreatures in the eighties ( fahrenheit ) which, while not unheard of, is still unusual for so many days in a row...today's tempreatures are passing for what is probably "seasonable" these days...still mild when you consider in my younger days it had already seen the first snow by this time...and i am not really complaining...
portions of the winter wheat bed were looking a bit sparse wheat-wise so a bit ago i brodcast more seed into the bed and virtually all the newer wheat now has a second leaf which means we are good for winter...if the snow cooperates and arrives before serious cold sets in...
and a sizable proportion of the garlic i planted is up and running...again, should be good for winter...still, the mild and springl( if not summer ) like weather is having a different set of impacts...
anyone who knows me, or any regular reader of these screeds, knows that the bed of my truck is home to a thriving colony of new york strawberries...
and any annual that finds its way there ( one imagines by bird...only the strawberries were deliberately planted )...this year it has been black nightshade which, since it is autumn, is in the process of dying back...all good so far, however...
finding newly sprouted legumes of some description on the twelfth of october is not...the timing is unnatural...odd...not that i haven't seen soybeans and volunteer corn in harvested fields doing this...this still strikes me as odd...
no doubt these are legumes...there was a bush bean back there last year, however i am thinking these are cow peas sprouted from seed spilled last spring...the mystery is why they took so long to germinate if that is the case and, if not, where did they come from?
they ( there are three ) all had well developed root systems that were running laterally ( there is not a lot of depth to the growth medium in the truck bed )...however well developed roots were not going to help these plants when the real cold hits...so...
it was down to the plant room where i prepared a container...scooped out three holes...augmented them with worm castings...
planted the newcomers and lowered the growlight to the lowest possible position, starting the 2021-2022 indoor season...there wil doubtlessly be spuds later...there are always spuds
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