wheat spuds and teosinte

a busy day off began with a run out to the campus garden...it has been warm here of late...

around eighty degrees ( fahrenheit ) by eight in the morning and i wanted to look in on the einkorn in particular...

it seems to be weathering the weather alright...

so i gave the rows a couple of gallons of water and had a wider look around...

new spears of asparagus continue to break surface...

however, because my trips are intermittent and no one else sems interested in eating asparagus, some of the spears are nearly as tall as i am and are beginning to "fern"...an asparagus hazard...well...the season will be over soon so it matters little...the plants will feed the roots until autumn...

the alfalfa is verdant and will need to be coralled soon...and i believe the next trip out the fabric is coming off the bed and some hopi turquoise and glass gen maize will be going in along with, eventually, sone rye grass...done on campus i went to the portage garden...

where a number of spuds ( all i have in there at the moment ) are up and running with, i hope, more to come...there will be maize going in here as well...the weather is definitely warming so when i got home...

i dug into the teosinte seed i left out of the freezer last autum, including the seed from ears with the double rows of seeds...i had some success with direcr=t seeding ( as opposed to the hydrogen peroxide soak/baggie germination method ) so...

i dug a bed...turned in compost...direct seded a row of each type of seed...

and soaked the bed...something i will continue to do daily for the next week or so, and we will see what, if anything, comes up...there will still be some peroxide seeds...including some double row...i am simply curious to see if last season's success in this can be reprated...we will know over the next few weeks.