first day of spring?

if so it is time to plant the spring wheat...

in this case, some einkorn...these i harvested from the campus carden last season ( something over three hundered )...

and some of the unused seed from 2022 i bought to plant on campus...these may have some misfires...actually i would expect some misfires from all of it...however it is ancient dna and i am relatively sure there is viable seed in both batches...we will see...

i had already dug the bed twice last week...it has been a bed of rye the past few seasons and there were a couple of voluntweer stands of it in the bed...so i left them be...

i added some compost, raked it out, turned it under, hoed the bed, and raked it reasonably even again...

using a weeding hoe has a rough measure i created some shallow furrows with the edge of my hand...

and lined the bottom of the furrows with worm castings...

and while we are talking worms, i found any number as i turned the bed...always a good sign, worms...

i spread the seed in the furrows and raked it under... the seed was enough for eight rows...i did not water today...the compost was near to being mud and there is rain in the forecast so i will hold off on water for now...i have some black tipped wheat seed coming so some of that will go in this bed as well...and some somewhere else...

around the yard, the winter wheat i planted on a compost heap last autumn is looking very well today...

and some ( emphasize "some" ) of the winter wheat in the bed is perking up...was it a snow dorught or is it a soil fertility issue? unknown at this point.. i did did compost this bed thoroughly before i planted it...perhaps that was not enough...i will be adding worm castings to dress this bed as we go along to see...

the ramp bed is berift of ramps...it is early yet however...we will see what comes up in april...

on the other hand, the alfalfa is on the move...must be spring.