a sunday off so i took out early for the community gardens...over in portage the spuds look well...
and i counted seventte glass gem maize plants up...and...
some maize...
and its teosinte ancestor...
before i left i started the process of hilling the spuds...all of them got a dose of compost...then i went to the campus garden...
where the asparagus is still upright...
and the einkorn is verdant...
the only issue is the rye grass i brodacast in eight days ago is coming in sparsely...so i wtaered it thoroughly...
over in my bed the alfalfa continues to make a break for it...conmingling with a volunteer spud to hide out...
the rye grass here is marginally thicker and there are a dozen hopi turquoise maize plants up...this all was watered as well...that accomplished i headed home...
where i turned and hoed another bed...
established compost hills...
planted some hopi turquoise i soaked overnight and tossed in some rye grass for a cover...
and then watered the maize and teosinte that is up as well as the teosinte seedlings i planted yesterday and the rye grass..and that about does it for today..although...
there was an article in the rirday n y times concerning the shift in agriculture in califonia to legal omogrant labor in the country on seasonal visa, mechanization, and the movement of "labor intensive crops" south to mexico..to a degree that's fine however i wonder how many calories of fuel ( not to mention the petroleum based fertilizers ) are being burned to harvest the calories in those radishes...and is it my imagination or do these guy look more like chemical workers than field hands?
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