some february green

the teosinte i test fired and planted downstairs on the tenth of december has outgrown what passes for a nursery down there...

so i mixed some peat moss and compost and perlite in some larger pots and began the transplant...

it was obviously time since they were becoming pot-bound...

i loosened the soil around their roots, dug out a space, and planted them...giving each a shot of water to settle them in and let them know they could spread out thier roots...we'll see how this goes..if they do well it will outside in a few months for the rest of the summer...

and while outside is the topic, the temperature has moderated and, unlike the past two februarys there has been no sign of snow...it is almost a quarter of the way through the month and the snow drought continues...

this is what my back yard looked like one year ago to the day...

this was a few minutes ago...

the temperature here has been below zero ( fahrenheit ) more than once...the wheat is not looking especially robust...we will see how that goes...conversely...

the berries have remained vibrantly green all though the weather...and there are obviously cohabiting onions with some of them...there are onions everywhere out there...they are not called walking onions for no reason...

clusters of daffodils are rumbling to life...

and the mooseberry bush is evincing buds...spring is forty-two days away...time to get cracking on a few projects like spring garlic and einkorn wheat...forty-two days is not a lot of time.