wheat

march is moving along so i went out to one of the half barrels on the south side...

cleaned it out, added compost, perlite, and earthworm castings...

and planted about a quarter of this packet of black tip wheat...now we wait...

while we are dicussing wheat, this is what the bed of hard red winter wheat looks like today...

there are scattered clumps of wheat beginning to look alive out there. however...

this is what that same bed looked like on the fourteenth of april 2019...that was the last winter we had appreciable early snow...there was ample snow in the winters of 2020-2021 and 2021-2022, however the snow came after substantial cold temperatures had damaged the wheat and the harvests those years was dismal...the sub-zero ( fahrenheit ) cold this year came in december well before what little snow we actually got appeared ( and that all vanished in a mater of days as the temperatures were "unseasonably warm" most of the winter ) and the wheat has again suffered...

i prepared that bed last september in the same manner i have each year so i am reasonably sure the soil was ready...i am inclined to blame the weather...

in other back yard news, the ramp bed is showing a possibility of ramps...

and the alfalfa patch i planted a few days back has some young alflafa up and running...more as it comes up.