tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-76138025422741824572024-03-25T08:58:20.663-05:00The Perennial AgriculturalistOrganic rather than transgenetic.
Labor instead of chemicals.
Diversity in place of monoculture.fredhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00169737219033981431noreply@blogger.comBlogger3054125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7613802542274182457.post-49410770453740675242024-03-22T15:06:00.000-05:002024-03-22T15:06:34.573-05:00last third of march and the second full day of spring<div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtdw0yC3oXbdqZBpVazy04k0jkjTPTph8Cvp-rJVXYQWiODcSJTFNxCjgXSuhbJb0OnO_kgADAYCGHZFzJqSX5KzxbB7t3mlGDHqzX8mFupbgtHtGJOfnQ_yYpu5BZE4qkF1EjAaIpag08Gt5Czi_JsbQtAAdTI9rRB43_t24wwNErQ2_Rp9rWlUTQV18/s4608/DSCN3524.JPG" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0; text-align: center; clear: left; float: left;"><img alt="" border="0" width="320" data-original-height="3456" data-original-width="4608" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtdw0yC3oXbdqZBpVazy04k0jkjTPTph8Cvp-rJVXYQWiODcSJTFNxCjgXSuhbJb0OnO_kgADAYCGHZFzJqSX5KzxbB7t3mlGDHqzX8mFupbgtHtGJOfnQ_yYpu5BZE4qkF1EjAaIpag08Gt5Czi_JsbQtAAdTI9rRB43_t24wwNErQ2_Rp9rWlUTQV18/s320/DSCN3524.JPG"/></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBcb-BQhHxcTfBlfH8Jy3gtBo0QvaOn24axwicpAMqlVZkTnfB-Yv-1eSn_zXDUfxw4fOQR6wNa5dbYnw4sUn1vwHJ-sax7K9tT7gSgiF-_2z94cy7nL9dIWQagk9zicop7bMvuzyDwbaDYbb901IKWGfzhDi2UvAQmSV3JIQBTXc0e3607bELkFtr-j8/s4608/DSCN4236.JPG" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0; text-align: center; clear: left; float: left;"><img alt="" border="0" width="320" data-original-height="3456" data-original-width="4608" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBcb-BQhHxcTfBlfH8Jy3gtBo0QvaOn24axwicpAMqlVZkTnfB-Yv-1eSn_zXDUfxw4fOQR6wNa5dbYnw4sUn1vwHJ-sax7K9tT7gSgiF-_2z94cy7nL9dIWQagk9zicop7bMvuzyDwbaDYbb901IKWGfzhDi2UvAQmSV3JIQBTXc0e3607bELkFtr-j8/s320/DSCN4236.JPG"/></a></div>
we've already discussed that the daffodils are significantly early and that the asparaagus is on schedule...
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there was a dusting of snow this morning and although it has warmed this afternoon, temperatures will be below freezing at night over the next few days...
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so the mooseberry bush has stalled...
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i did not see a fully opened russian olive blooms until april seventh last year...these began opening yesterday so that leaves us seventeen days earlier this year...
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marigold and i were rooting around in the jerusalem artichoke bed and we found...
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well..roots...this one had sprouted them in three places...
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and this ...
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had just the one...
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these have been breaking soil surface in the first week of may and rooting in march may simply be part of that timeline...the only way to tell is to keep an eye on them and see what pops up and when...so far it is about a fifty/fifty split between on time and early...we will see how that holds.
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there is asparagus up and running in my back yard...
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so since i had some time i wandered over to campus to open the asparagus bed just to see what was what...
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there was a bit of frost on the fabric and when i pulled it up it did not seem as though there was much going on...at first...
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a closer look showed there was a spear of asparagus that had broken the soil surface...recently given its soil hat...
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and over in the southwest corner the alfalfa is beginning to green up...a successful transplant there...
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there was no green in the southeast corner...the plant was basically sitting on top of the soil...i would suspect frost heave had pushed it up...
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however, when i pulled it up the roots were still supple and moist...
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so, since there is some hope for a recovery, i dug a deeper hole and replanted it firmly...we wil be looking at this over the next few weeks to see if the plant can bounce back...they can do that at times...reference the saga of puddles the wheat plant here in this blog from a few years ago...
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that done, i turned the back of the bed in an effort to discourage "native growth"...i will be planting back there before the end of the month...i have so sed for emmer and einkorn wheat and will likely throw some barley into the mix...a bed of grain i think is in order...more when we check in on the alfalfa.fredhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00169737219033981431noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7613802542274182457.post-22298941543210458772024-03-12T16:02:00.000-05:002024-03-12T16:02:05.869-05:00what's upnot all that much actually...however there are some notes of interest...
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it has been unnaturally warm ( or the new naturally warm ) so far this year and, while my thermometer doesn't show a record breaking temeprature ( seventy-seven degrees fahrenheit ) it is considerably above the average ( i know, averages lie ) of forty-six...what impact this has had i am uncertain...temperature or day length?
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the daffodils are in full bloom signifcantly earlier than last season's march thirtieth...
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the strawberries are evincing new growth...however thay have been green all winter...
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last year the mooseberry bush (high bush cranberry for those of you who did not grow up with rocky and bullwinkle ) was not this far along until the fifth of april...
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jerusalem artichokes usually come up in early may...this one looks like it is satrting to produce a root and i will be keeping an eye on it to see what transpires and when...
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finally, there was no asparagus up in this bed when i checked two days ago, however there is today...and this is on schedule...so..a mash-up of early, on time, and uncertain start times...we'll see.
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most of the corn fields around here look like this in february...
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however this one, about a mile down the road, has a crop over-wintering which is something i have not seen in a while...usually the field corn is all in by early december at the latest...there are nay number of reason why this corn is still in the field and there are pros and cons ( just like the rest of life )...it might just be that the farmer didn't get to it before the weather tuned wet and precluded harvesting...field corn is 35 to 40% moisture in the autumn...leaving it out to over-winter naturally reduces the moisture content obviating the need to use ( and pay for ) a grain dryer...
it sems clear that the corn in this field is drying...i found more than these husks splitting open and revealing the kernels...
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the cold would kill off pests and diseases...and, i am told, the roots releases nutrients beck into the soil...my figures are about twelve pounds of nitrogen per ton of corn cobs and i wonder how much the roots might contain...needs more research... and that is about the limit of pros i can find...on the downside the weather can be deleterious...specifically freezing rain...i've seen tree limbs and tree tops broken off by a coating of ice and corn stalks are not nearly as strong as wood...additionally, the cold is not the only thing opening the husks..
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it seem sreasonable to assume that deer have been at work here...eating the corn off the stalk...
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and leaving them , fully or partially consumed, on the ground...hungry critters in february...and that is what i could see from the roadside ( i did not wade out into the field...that would be bad manners...and trespassing )... when will this field be harvested? and how close to planting will that be? this will be a bean field next season and those usually don't plant until june...that doesn't mean a late ( or early? ) harvest won't interfere with planting some other crop in some other field...i believe farmers have more than enough to worry about in good times and that leaving a crop out in winter would simply add to that burden...than again i am not a farmer...just someone interested in the overall impact of the neolithic revolution.fredhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00169737219033981431noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7613802542274182457.post-79507090639824959462023-12-15T12:13:00.000-06:002023-12-15T12:13:14.572-06:00natural? unnatural? new natural?<div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhn1TcWTAtXgkAiXQ5kgT6BVXyP1vmhCI744vT1ammSZfXtQn8bZb8sV2hgz7kJc-8ZE5RBnORYH1OtVGClLz7QColuZcH_q6Hmm-UUPMCYZvhCUAr5ExIX5LLaFcBsJ3LvDgb295T6jVZTanZemvuCRM20ynzl8OuMqYXhxE5oIDQmvN5AvBjdmRZSpkg/s4608/DSCN8692.JPG" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0; text-align: center; clear: left; float: left;"><img alt="" border="0" width="320" data-original-height="3456" data-original-width="4608" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhn1TcWTAtXgkAiXQ5kgT6BVXyP1vmhCI744vT1ammSZfXtQn8bZb8sV2hgz7kJc-8ZE5RBnORYH1OtVGClLz7QColuZcH_q6Hmm-UUPMCYZvhCUAr5ExIX5LLaFcBsJ3LvDgb295T6jVZTanZemvuCRM20ynzl8OuMqYXhxE5oIDQmvN5AvBjdmRZSpkg/s320/DSCN8692.JPG"/></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjCUrHiFDqKOm7FsqVpvGz5Ty7ZWKp6h6xJIgvQ54ev0PDcqIH_N9zif4LA8oabhVMId_XUM-pKYyenODb-ILDe4rYgN02KXuXNJu_OBdxrOMnT4MEP5rKzHF2KzehdZCM4J_ZGGZ8BnkUUiQIypVJYXpeNXCbNXAR8YMKIhzmo0E8dFjrPgdnxNdIfbCw/s4608/DSCN8694.JPG" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0; text-align: center; clear: left; float: left;"><img alt="" border="0" width="320" data-original-height="3456" data-original-width="4608" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjCUrHiFDqKOm7FsqVpvGz5Ty7ZWKp6h6xJIgvQ54ev0PDcqIH_N9zif4LA8oabhVMId_XUM-pKYyenODb-ILDe4rYgN02KXuXNJu_OBdxrOMnT4MEP5rKzHF2KzehdZCM4J_ZGGZ8BnkUUiQIypVJYXpeNXCbNXAR8YMKIhzmo0E8dFjrPgdnxNdIfbCw/s320/DSCN8694.JPG"/></a></div>
something like a four degree difference from one side of the yard to the other...or it might just be the thermometers are not calibrated the same...one suspects they were never completely accurate to begin with...that does not conceal the fact that it is near or above fifty degrees ( fahrenheit ) here on the fifteenth of december and that is unusual..or would have been in the past...it may just be what is these days for whatever reason you may wish to attribute it to ( bound to be some deniers out there )...
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warm enough that the berry plants i rescued from my old truck before i sold it have decided it's safe to escape the netting i put over them to keep the new puppy ( it has been a busy autumn ) from digging them up ( a terrier, she likes to dig and fresly turned soil is irresistable ) and seek sunlight and evince new growth...admittedly they stay green all winter and are cold hardy...still, they generally hunker down afer november until march...so there is movement in the yard...
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and in the basement the rescue potato is doing well...
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as are the zea plants...i begin to suspect that, despite the oddly shaped seeds, these are teosinte...they simply do not look like maize...so..it's december and, for the most part, quiet...we will see how the remainder of the month goes weather-wise and what the yard does...the basement would seem to be prety stable for the nonce.
fredhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00169737219033981431noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7613802542274182457.post-10292527622628190242023-11-27T18:16:00.007-06:002023-11-27T18:16:59.208-06:00oh it's zea alright<div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYmfYgdR5w4KKPaazH-GPwzwT6uXxzd3Mi5P_2wxNx7jat_P-KJnr0-Y6PaeagaiargcyO_sAk-rBKwWPcGXb5nIOuBMmxUCDRavUdlLpsUjtFZBxh9UwUGwJfIDiDePKJimNlRhLZaCV17acW1NKAcDy55kQNvSWJvSE7UvIu_FnxKzx8XoxTv736eKk/s4608/DSCN8140.JPG" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0; text-align: center; clear: left; float: left;"><img alt="" border="0" width="320" data-original-height="3456" data-original-width="4608" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYmfYgdR5w4KKPaazH-GPwzwT6uXxzd3Mi5P_2wxNx7jat_P-KJnr0-Y6PaeagaiargcyO_sAk-rBKwWPcGXb5nIOuBMmxUCDRavUdlLpsUjtFZBxh9UwUGwJfIDiDePKJimNlRhLZaCV17acW1NKAcDy55kQNvSWJvSE7UvIu_FnxKzx8XoxTv736eKk/s320/DSCN8140.JPG"/></a></div>
there is no mistaking it...
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and the rescue potato is supported.fredhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00169737219033981431noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7613802542274182457.post-64611946244927071442023-11-26T14:04:00.000-06:002023-11-26T14:04:31.724-06:00what is this? IV<div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgOY7HkTgKCBKUnTCOj0zZRSWs4IaUkf9c1hlcIzn3-RbRvmV3infvMTr_TAeQcc6AnjQhxgnu-F-bIeQA3z6_Oy8wclXgDiUsbBQ8FlaxoVggF9oJgwU6nF3s0CzVpWTcbipX3oF521O6HO9wLSC1T-jOSV7hyphenhyphenZowosh1c5WB6fNuoxf77IqL_QryvJGs/s4608/DSCN8121.JPG" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0; text-align: center; clear: left; float: left;"><img alt="" border="0" width="320" data-original-height="3456" data-original-width="4608" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgOY7HkTgKCBKUnTCOj0zZRSWs4IaUkf9c1hlcIzn3-RbRvmV3infvMTr_TAeQcc6AnjQhxgnu-F-bIeQA3z6_Oy8wclXgDiUsbBQ8FlaxoVggF9oJgwU6nF3s0CzVpWTcbipX3oF521O6HO9wLSC1T-jOSV7hyphenhyphenZowosh1c5WB6fNuoxf77IqL_QryvJGs/s320/DSCN8121.JPG"/></a></div>
opened up the dark place and looked into the baggies and found five sprouts ready to plant, while the rest would seem to be misfires...we will give them more time to see however i am not sanguine about their viability...
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the sprouts i planted five days ago are greening up and the concavity of the first leaf on both of them is a distinct zea feature...they are doing well and i am hoping for some morphological comparisons to known photos of both maize and teosinte...so far all i can say is they are zea of some sort...
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so i planted all five..two with the originals and three with the rescue potato...which is becoming somewhat "leggy" under the lights and will doubtlessly be in need of support...happens every time...more as it develops.fredhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00169737219033981431noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7613802542274182457.post-41814543460035361782023-11-21T13:15:00.000-06:002023-11-21T13:15:33.013-06:00what is this? III<div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLjFHrnbZvH-FyIGPX1vFUhdGsBlQiG0mCESRGjJvqmwpbdBE4yg8dTKSF-kbhtbP4ZGamvtf-shILkFa1U6acbAloTLOCjO9ATUfbBtbtTNhq6p2xRQ_DV40VHzJNVgh8r7OE5WnV-Cy3Rxtjx56uZWiAo421Y9QQEanhusWueRK0djLKhMONoA8FyWM/s4608/DSCN7962.JPG" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0; text-align: center; clear: left; float: left;"><img alt="" border="0" width="320" data-original-height="3456" data-original-width="4608" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLjFHrnbZvH-FyIGPX1vFUhdGsBlQiG0mCESRGjJvqmwpbdBE4yg8dTKSF-kbhtbP4ZGamvtf-shILkFa1U6acbAloTLOCjO9ATUfbBtbtTNhq6p2xRQ_DV40VHzJNVgh8r7OE5WnV-Cy3Rxtjx56uZWiAo421Y9QQEanhusWueRK0djLKhMONoA8FyWM/s320/DSCN7962.JPG"/></a></div>
while a few more of the hydrogen peroxide soaked seeds are showing signs of viability...
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this one is ready to plant...
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the unsoaked seeds are showing a bit more movement...
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however only one of these is ready as well...
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so i prepared some space under the lights...
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planted them both and lowered the light until it almost touched the top of the container...the other seeds went back in the baggies and into the dark...will be checking on them on thanksgiving to see if more space is required...and now we wait and see what comes up...something from the zea family...but what? the sprout and root certainly look like teosinte...
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simply the seeds do not...we will be checking in and having a look at morphology as things progress...perhaps that will clear things up.fredhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00169737219033981431noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7613802542274182457.post-6719219320985952732023-11-19T18:42:00.001-06:002023-11-19T18:42:42.397-06:00what is this ? IIi am unsure how kernels of alleged hopi blue maize turned out yellow...and i am still uncertain of exactly what this is...however...
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in both the batch of seed i soaked in hydreogen peroxide...
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and the ones i simply put into a damp paper towel they are the ones showing the most viability...they will be planted and place under the lights in the basement where i am somewhat less than convinced there will be anything more than,perhaps, green leaves and stalks...still we will be giving anything that germinates the opportunity to have a basement season and we will certainly be direct sowing some outdoors come spring simply to see what might happen...and since a basement season is under discussion...
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the rescue potato has decided what stems are going to grow and which are superfluous and has begun to sprout more leaves and gain some height...opportunity taken.fredhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00169737219033981431noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7613802542274182457.post-70894685928410601892023-11-13T04:22:00.000-06:002023-11-13T04:22:16.842-06:00what is this?i planted three separate beds of mixed heirloom hopi blue maize and teosinte this past season...and, incidentally, it has not been a very promisng season in terms of viable teosinte seed...or maize for that matter and that is the point of this post...
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teosinte seed develops in husks just like its descendant, however it produces a single row of seed with no cob ( and you can tell by green seed in november that things did not go well...by this time last year i had far more mature seed than this time around )...and there were a number of plants that produced just this...
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maize produces ears with multiple rows of kernels ( i know, you know that ) and these ears did as well with three, four, five, and seven rows respectively left to right...
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whatever this may be it certainly does not look anything like hopi blue maize...
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although there are some "kernels" with a bluish cast to them...
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when i took a few off the cob they did look a bit more like maize kernels...however, still clearly not...teosinte and maize can cross pollenate and i have to wonder if that is what has happened here...and i wondered if the seed might be viable...uncertain of how to proceed in finding out...
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i used the tesointe/hydrogen peroxide method of breaking dormancy on half by soaking them for twenty minutes and putting them in damp paper towels in a baggie...
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and the other half simply went into a damp paper towel...then both into a dark place, and we wait...we will be looking in o them form time to time and , if anything germinates, there wil be an addition to the bsement winter season...
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speaking of which, the rescue potato is doing well...more, if anything happens...or even if it does not.fredhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00169737219033981431noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7613802542274182457.post-6538605753071991912023-10-14T13:47:00.002-05:002023-10-14T17:29:22.088-05:00disrupted plansmy gibberellic acid arrived two days ago and so the pieces for my planned winter basement season of growing four corners potaotos form seed derived from the fruits i had harvested seemed to be moving along...i was not planning on starting anything down there until late this year or early next and when the plants had finished, if they produced tubers, i was going to grow outdoor potates cloned fron tubers grown from true seed next season...until, of course, my plans were disrupted...
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when i found this spud chitting away in a corner of the plant room and very clearly almost on its last legs in terms of stored energy...feeling an obligation to, at least, provide opportunity for growth...
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i planted it deep in a container leaving only the very top above the surface ( which looks actually like it was producing tubers )...added water...and turned on a grow light...we will see where we get with this.fredhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00169737219033981431noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7613802542274182457.post-54632897806837694862023-10-08T18:09:00.002-05:002023-10-08T18:09:57.403-05:00four corners seed<div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVk3inW7oaR9oWHMC3G3DBFWnkIjvvpjO79qnlHYeQTOan3IlHm8-j1O8NmSeO9Qozfig8JeW8MpuJm7WNRIjzmKmvPFDMRaK9fLseNCml06gyeUPR_uzVSXVzFdUbFSGNGs212VAnJ5sjUCRD3OMPn0rEO0ztTACX4-pqAkxUyhx8PhUfa9jMJdtd7pg/s4608/DSCN5606.JPG" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0; text-align: center; clear: left; float: left;"><img alt="" border="0" width="320" data-original-height="3456" data-original-width="4608" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVk3inW7oaR9oWHMC3G3DBFWnkIjvvpjO79qnlHYeQTOan3IlHm8-j1O8NmSeO9Qozfig8JeW8MpuJm7WNRIjzmKmvPFDMRaK9fLseNCml06gyeUPR_uzVSXVzFdUbFSGNGs212VAnJ5sjUCRD3OMPn0rEO0ztTACX4-pqAkxUyhx8PhUfa9jMJdtd7pg/s320/DSCN5606.JPG"/></a></div>
the fruits i have harvested from the four corners potates have begun to soften...
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so i picked out a couple of the mid-sized ones to see what i would find ( beyond the obious seeds ) in terms of numbers...
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using the sharpest knife i own i cut them open...
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and squeezed out the pulp...something like a tomato...which is no coincidence since they are both from the nightshade family...they are full of solanine and that always makes my hands itch...it si also toxic ( although not in the small dose one would recieve from a couple of fruits ) so it's always a good idea to wash your hands and owrk surfaces thoroughly when finished...if nothing else than to control the itiching...
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these are small seeds...
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about a sixteenth of an inch in diameter and exceptionally flat...
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those two fuits ( and i have a dozen more to do ) yielded one hundred seeds...
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which i set out on a paper towel to dry...the solanine will pretty much weld them to the toweling when it dries...no worries about lost little seeds...now to acquire some gibberellic acid and break domeancy...i grew spuds from seed a few years ago from fruits on more standard potatoes ( red pontiacs i think ) over the winter...a basement project yet again...starting in 2024 i think to time out any tuber production for summer planting...
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and, while seeds are the matter at hand, it is october and teosinte seed is starting to come in...we are pleased.fredhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00169737219033981431noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7613802542274182457.post-55976312600950212252023-10-05T17:22:00.000-05:002023-10-05T17:22:20.594-05:00four corners<div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUgOYisEPyjL7Ip1Xy7vf6Toi-uFQTzFFuGfaD9MiujAAS8Ut8m3IZELr0CDG-yjPCbWagizSb0GoHjSt5S3cJ_FyrShoXH9-4Vh1AlyWTTnfkD0GQ0fcsche8oeG323_TfBrEiNQia3OlSESvU-b8ePspqvoWMIBiQaA-H8kMGs63jqCH7kBoyGxzp9E/s4608/DSCN0046.JPG" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0; text-align: center; clear: left; float: left;"><img alt="" border="0" width="320" data-original-height="3456" data-original-width="4608" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUgOYisEPyjL7Ip1Xy7vf6Toi-uFQTzFFuGfaD9MiujAAS8Ut8m3IZELr0CDG-yjPCbWagizSb0GoHjSt5S3cJ_FyrShoXH9-4Vh1AlyWTTnfkD0GQ0fcsche8oeG323_TfBrEiNQia3OlSESvU-b8ePspqvoWMIBiQaA-H8kMGs63jqCH7kBoyGxzp9E/s320/DSCN0046.JPG"/></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEircAJdtb6LCE9_O0AL26G0toqIRvn5f7Y69Is23vFgibpz5AIKsBCQTU3YkJLhm3QTem_E0MF81lzVYkMEkzC2vvt5_iMdNgeaA_yl8NBqI9p1jULrC-m0OfjS-iaz01ITFLvyvygGgDWYTESwBxc3UC-xIR3VXrKaxaRjz_EgzfzZtV8X7qVB4DEMJ0I/s2048/IMG_4050.JPG" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0; text-align: center; clear: left; float: left;"><img alt="" border="0" width="320" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEircAJdtb6LCE9_O0AL26G0toqIRvn5f7Y69Is23vFgibpz5AIKsBCQTU3YkJLhm3QTem_E0MF81lzVYkMEkzC2vvt5_iMdNgeaA_yl8NBqI9p1jULrC-m0OfjS-iaz01ITFLvyvygGgDWYTESwBxc3UC-xIR3VXrKaxaRjz_EgzfzZtV8X7qVB4DEMJ0I/s320/IMG_4050.JPG"/></a></div>
over the past three months the four corners potatoes i planted on the last day of june have flowered...
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and produced fruits...
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fourteen of which i have retrieved as they dropped off the plants...so we may have viable seed...
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today when i got home from work i noticed that two of the four plants had pretty much finished up...two are still green and one still has a fruit attached...so i decided to harvest the two that were finished...
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one thing that immediately became apparent was the need for larger containers in the future...i suspect there would have been more tuber production if there had been a bit more room...
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still two plants produced thirty-seven tubers...
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that weighed in at a full ounce and a half...
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which i do not find to shabby given the size...i will, i believe replant some of these and let them winter over outside to see what spring brings...the rest i will store in the basement and, if this past season is any sort of index, be planting again in next june.fredhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00169737219033981431noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7613802542274182457.post-12608010630977232272023-10-01T14:33:00.010-05:002023-10-01T14:37:40.385-05:00notable sighting<div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgrT6BCQmqrzOpeU9oICrGg7n-nEzDDFwvAaf0wjgwExkYlVKZIqJ7-smVwcYQY_whDTi8RsUGuQHHIYfViAGl_ytEiW_gkrHXexUgDaO1Nkr623i-ofbHUYrzeWPlI6xQgynN3RPuztlfRmrxU6MC8wj4yux4-OFY5TRG2eTuhGSG38lPw05uQb-iU7P0/s4608/DSCN4793.JPG" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0; text-align: center; clear: left; float: left;"><img alt="" border="0" width="320" data-original-height="3456" data-original-width="4608" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgrT6BCQmqrzOpeU9oICrGg7n-nEzDDFwvAaf0wjgwExkYlVKZIqJ7-smVwcYQY_whDTi8RsUGuQHHIYfViAGl_ytEiW_gkrHXexUgDaO1Nkr623i-ofbHUYrzeWPlI6xQgynN3RPuztlfRmrxU6MC8wj4yux4-OFY5TRG2eTuhGSG38lPw05uQb-iU7P0/s320/DSCN4793.JPG"/></a></div>
the borage was looking decidedly unhappy so i dragged out a garden hose to douse it...
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when i encountered a honeybee on the blooms...unremarkable except for the fact that i haven't seen a honeybee in my yard in a couple of years...that does not mean there haven't been any visiting, simply that, until a few minutes ago, i had not seen one in quite a while...we will talk about teosinte as the seeds come in.fredhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00169737219033981431noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7613802542274182457.post-26297795738549880412023-09-17T14:08:00.002-05:002023-09-17T14:08:53.564-05:00concords<div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjlfn-FGk7n-Ch_tIFeqYf8S0NpgZ084_QlRchTneqvUfcRvQqWGI4nCrhbcusTQF77bxKhlG4ERRz1oNPjjuk2e2klXl9I_uttrJpswSo-VOfGNpLZff8HrCOpzCcfALLJYFB4w1p7HALezVU1aacXlbu5mwEYhJ8ZpMZLNf-zCr71Z4CNGhYBa7tQ64U/s4608/DSCN3327.JPG" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0; text-align: center; clear: left; float: left;"><img alt="" border="0" width="320" data-original-height="3456" data-original-width="4608" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjlfn-FGk7n-Ch_tIFeqYf8S0NpgZ084_QlRchTneqvUfcRvQqWGI4nCrhbcusTQF77bxKhlG4ERRz1oNPjjuk2e2klXl9I_uttrJpswSo-VOfGNpLZff8HrCOpzCcfALLJYFB4w1p7HALezVU1aacXlbu5mwEYhJ8ZpMZLNf-zCr71Z4CNGhYBa7tQ64U/s320/DSCN3327.JPG"/></a></div>
divining from the looks of the concords in the fir tree that it was time to harvest i got out my anvil shears and a five gallon bucket and went to work...
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the vines there produced a reasonable amount of fruit...
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however that was the low hanging fruit...
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the vines in the catalpa tree were somewhat further off the ground...
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and they held a bit more in terms of grapes...those collected...
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i moved to the vines in the mulberry tree...
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which were somewhat less laden with fruit...i did leave some bunches that were higher up in the tree for the birds...at least in part because i was not interested in getting much more than eight feet off the ground and reaching over my head to cut grapes down...we will make do with what i harvested...
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the lot weighed in at 5 pounds 10.575 ounces which i washed off in the sink drowning more than a few earwigs...
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i did save some seed just to see what might happen come spring...
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i removed the grapes from the stems, and covered them with water in a stockpot...
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it takes a while to bring grapes to a boil, however they finally did and i simmered them for ten minutes filling the kitchen with the aroma of warm grape juice...they are cooling now and in another hour or two i will strain the juice though some cheese cloth and refirigerate it until it is time to produce some homemade grape jelly...we will see how that goes.fredhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00169737219033981431noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7613802542274182457.post-76915509425664553942023-08-26T13:04:00.001-05:002023-08-26T13:04:27.768-05:00define "gardening"<div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgB6W_ZZb7KXLU8BwpugSMZZ5y3BPIwgvmkpLSTxxrugs_gPn91JiDUpoKa2uvvLXczmmH8xTY4lqLXjH-nnEHV1TvSgQ5HXkuFDM-nB8fK64lhWKyWbazM2PukFN9lnT50SGnPGIpoY5x8InOWxoU3mQTabJTAOvt4ojwd3Ty81TaQU8Ic-Da_wQ6Dazg/s4608/DSCN0657.JPG" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0; text-align: center; clear: left; float: left;"><img alt="" border="0" width="320" data-original-height="3456" data-original-width="4608" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgB6W_ZZb7KXLU8BwpugSMZZ5y3BPIwgvmkpLSTxxrugs_gPn91JiDUpoKa2uvvLXczmmH8xTY4lqLXjH-nnEHV1TvSgQ5HXkuFDM-nB8fK64lhWKyWbazM2PukFN9lnT50SGnPGIpoY5x8InOWxoU3mQTabJTAOvt4ojwd3Ty81TaQU8Ic-Da_wQ6Dazg/s320/DSCN0657.JPG"/></a></div>
i imagine many people associate the term "gardening" with growing fruits and vegetables like potatoes...which i am growing this eason...
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and corn ( although this is hopi blue which is a flint and intneded to be ground into corn meal ) which i have in the community gardens and the yard...
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or tomatoes which are all over out there...
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and a few sunflowers...
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as well as beans...some of which are still blooming away and some of which i am saving for seed next year...fairly standard stuff...ant then there are any number of plants that are non-standard which i find of more interest...
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the ancestor of that maize is blooming as well...
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and it has silks like its descendant...if not as overtly visible they serve the same function...
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and, a few days ago, i found some actual ears and seeds going on...
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however...what caught my eye today as i was wandering around back there is that a few of those four corners potato blooms that had not fallen off the plants...
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have become fruits...so now we have hopes of both tubers and seeds...gardening is going okay this season
fredhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00169737219033981431noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7613802542274182457.post-75388640295665803672023-08-21T12:57:00.000-05:002023-08-21T12:57:23.083-05:00zea,spuds, and beans<div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQNOM0ZlvqcrXa1pAYv9BMHTKuRHTXiw7SmxEsZ68l4iPMTotzQMeybmfr12_WH6aT0JRgh0VKs2aNpWAa_n-LxU-8kyxDrjBdKQaKsg5Pjy3xYDzOndtz0lVn7CQ4tbY-xQn9KxDzW8Y18x9dZ_cwyC64R3-I0ilbpg3OZDRBZwXiaCctGvQAkhqKKnM/s4608/DSCN0654.JPG" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0; text-align: center; clear: left; float: left;"><img alt="" border="0" width="320" data-original-height="3456" data-original-width="4608" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQNOM0ZlvqcrXa1pAYv9BMHTKuRHTXiw7SmxEsZ68l4iPMTotzQMeybmfr12_WH6aT0JRgh0VKs2aNpWAa_n-LxU-8kyxDrjBdKQaKsg5Pjy3xYDzOndtz0lVn7CQ4tbY-xQn9KxDzW8Y18x9dZ_cwyC64R3-I0ilbpg3OZDRBZwXiaCctGvQAkhqKKnM/s320/DSCN0654.JPG"/></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwdT-CxKq_aIkUoK-tvu0DAJDolGLe9qr_OwiLTafnGbvq20E7spNk6MUsaQS4-8SoMcA9uBacOB3w-22r8olXoKPZ655_g7x1OW6d0qN0ZF1S-AXymYuOmzJleW8O54xcGkQ9ModBEiJ_dcnlfOQweo3EsGZw-5cZjVWAWQpVFKpO3OkLb1hF1TCzheE/s4608/DSCN0660.JPG" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0; text-align: center; clear: left; float: left;"><img alt="" border="0" width="320" data-original-height="3456" data-original-width="4608" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwdT-CxKq_aIkUoK-tvu0DAJDolGLe9qr_OwiLTafnGbvq20E7spNk6MUsaQS4-8SoMcA9uBacOB3w-22r8olXoKPZ655_g7x1OW6d0qN0ZF1S-AXymYuOmzJleW8O54xcGkQ9ModBEiJ_dcnlfOQweo3EsGZw-5cZjVWAWQpVFKpO3OkLb1hF1TCzheE/s320/DSCN0660.JPG"/></a></div>
went to the garden and pulled in another seven pounds six and three eighths ounces of spuds from the half bed i planted which brings the harvest from that up to sixteen pounds and half an ounce to date...there are still a few more plants that are not finished so the total should rise...we will see...
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the hopi blue maize there is blooming...
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and one plant has produced two ears to date...
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this one in a different bed must be pushing eleven or twelve feet in height...
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just for scale, i am around six feet tall and i took this photo holding the camera at arm's length over my head...
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it has not produced any ears yet, however, in true "three sisters" style, it does have a bean vine using it as a trellis...
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the vine is blooming...
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and the bees are obligingly paying them visits....
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here at home the hopi blue...
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is also blooming...
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and producing...
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not wanting to be left behind the teosinte...
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is blooming as well...
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and exhibiting silks, if not ears ( yet )...
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the jerusalem artichokes are in full bloom ( so it must be august )...
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and the concord grapes are ripening ( yet another sign of both august and incipient autumn )...things are moving along.
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the teosinte out back is coming along well so far...
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flowers have been emerging over the last week or so...
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and this afternoon i noticed silks for the first time this season...if everything holds together this bodes well for some ears and, with any luck, replication of ancestral dna through viable seed...i have a store of frozen seed from past years and i am considering mixing some in with this years crop next season in a larger planting to try and foster more genetic diveristy in the seed...we need to get through this season first however so we can put that thought aside until say march 2024 or so...and who knows what may happen before then?fredhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00169737219033981431noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7613802542274182457.post-17398082583617607122023-08-10T09:52:00.000-05:002023-08-10T09:52:00.870-05:00a bit of a harvest and some blooms ( and a bee )<div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-pTDtVa-0hloT8OvgrtLoDK-jFMtNocAPKILb5W7SmZ6kypdVDSyTiiYQ3ZQ1GcFw_hvLUUqPjC3jfetxOJ_9o9rnTTYf9yYuKXRCv4MmNGm75owCHCIbDoQ38C9Sp3qBZPd9CgfuJVJ4aMGAPAJ3X1ib4YYde16lKb_rRRmD-sqZmIFPLBlUTnIgghg/s2048/IMG_4083.JPG" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0; text-align: center; clear: left; float: left;"><img alt="" border="0" width="320" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-pTDtVa-0hloT8OvgrtLoDK-jFMtNocAPKILb5W7SmZ6kypdVDSyTiiYQ3ZQ1GcFw_hvLUUqPjC3jfetxOJ_9o9rnTTYf9yYuKXRCv4MmNGm75owCHCIbDoQ38C9Sp3qBZPd9CgfuJVJ4aMGAPAJ3X1ib4YYde16lKb_rRRmD-sqZmIFPLBlUTnIgghg/s320/IMG_4083.JPG"/></a></div>
i went by the portage garden to check on the beds and found four potato plants done for the year...
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so i dug the tubers...
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brought them home, cleaned them up, and they weighed in at eight pounds ten and one eighth ounces...there are quite a few more no quite ready yet...the total should rise...
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beyond that, i found a bee snoozing in a squash flower...
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and the hopi blue maize...
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is working on flowering on its own...
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here at home the maize is not flowering...however...
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the teosinte is...no sign of silks just yet...there will be a bulletin when they appear...more when that happens.
fredhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00169737219033981431noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7613802542274182457.post-35651934834942431362023-07-29T06:56:00.000-05:002023-07-29T06:56:45.264-05:008000bceten thousand year old dna has reproduced in my yard...
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in terms of the current "improved" varieties of wheat it is not exceptionally tall...mostly under three feet...
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with a shallow root system...
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and fairly small ears...
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which becomes more obvious when compared with an ear of hard red winter wheat ( still soggy from last night s thinderstorms )...
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add in the fact that each wheat "berry"...
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is encased in a though husk and you can get something of a handle on how much labor early agriculture entailed ...the first time i tried to thresh this grain i immediately understood why early agriculturalists put it in a threshing room and let the oxen walk on it...why anyone would involve themselves in this on a massive scale ( i do it because i am nosy ) except out of compulsion ( whether from necessity or by force ) would be another mystery of human behavior...still.. the relentless drive of einkorn dna goes on...in my back yard and in a few other placesfredhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00169737219033981431noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7613802542274182457.post-48677450178725919282023-07-25T14:41:00.000-05:002023-07-25T14:41:38.898-05:00solanum walk<div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg4TH4nAJ9So92jzu8v_gdXg9-d8kaRsrziyutaDeqTEg3uzF_GpZKsrShw0zv9n3iB8dfYeApm3XJRAUmwLjWMrXsbBvgrhsMCrrmGpdIMu78X80noXB8q3CFA6kmR7MYBGhbMjn5y7RGF9dJhk5BQwwxxrqvhBOY8N6sCf29kkwjuk_G9toKUUWuZx3o/s4608/DSCN7686.JPG" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0; text-align: center; clear: left; float: left;"><img alt="" border="0" width="320" data-original-height="3456" data-original-width="4608" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg4TH4nAJ9So92jzu8v_gdXg9-d8kaRsrziyutaDeqTEg3uzF_GpZKsrShw0zv9n3iB8dfYeApm3XJRAUmwLjWMrXsbBvgrhsMCrrmGpdIMu78X80noXB8q3CFA6kmR7MYBGhbMjn5y7RGF9dJhk5BQwwxxrqvhBOY8N6sCf29kkwjuk_G9toKUUWuZx3o/s320/DSCN7686.JPG"/></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjeADRZJ3GQhEtui8X8qOWdQ_PgKQDo4o9bnAsIwsDBFJpbIIs7_Ou5m50M4gXZaFpGRqr5dFLdILa4QkFhcop_sNO0OpKZ_U99pUEa3i2dabt-F_qRTzjFYtKAojwBadR8VaaQNbUkz35NPF1SoDo8eWL3Ktojq4WhCoJ2Z5CzlYplDLskjv3og41jwkw/s4608/DSCN7688.JPG" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0; text-align: center; clear: left; float: left;"><img alt="" border="0" width="320" data-original-height="3456" data-original-width="4608" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjeADRZJ3GQhEtui8X8qOWdQ_PgKQDo4o9bnAsIwsDBFJpbIIs7_Ou5m50M4gXZaFpGRqr5dFLdILa4QkFhcop_sNO0OpKZ_U99pUEa3i2dabt-F_qRTzjFYtKAojwBadR8VaaQNbUkz35NPF1SoDo8eWL3Ktojq4WhCoJ2Z5CzlYplDLskjv3og41jwkw/s320/DSCN7688.JPG"/></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqj86A833yrwMgkJsJNZJ2rENQh7bJ1io5JyyYS6PubspVQxqz0ysjotBmGbBvUNDoArYMsk5HM5TcGI7lTH5GaTzIS7lWTtA2sE_mcSwl5StPxllSN8arYxAv3UH3OM8eL2_6qQjsw3k6JlAEKC70kYajOCeUg-_8v4rhKM4LkzgjCvi-Vz7yFmA4N8w/s4608/DSCN7689.JPG" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0; text-align: center; clear: left; float: left;"><img alt="" border="0" width="320" data-original-height="3456" data-original-width="4608" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqj86A833yrwMgkJsJNZJ2rENQh7bJ1io5JyyYS6PubspVQxqz0ysjotBmGbBvUNDoArYMsk5HM5TcGI7lTH5GaTzIS7lWTtA2sE_mcSwl5StPxllSN8arYxAv3UH3OM8eL2_6qQjsw3k6JlAEKC70kYajOCeUg-_8v4rhKM4LkzgjCvi-Vz7yFmA4N8w/s320/DSCN7689.JPG"/></a></div>
at least one of the four corners buds has bloomed which led me to look around the yard and through the photo archives for family resemblances...
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tomatoes are nightshades...
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and, redundantly, so is bittersweet nightshade...
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as is black nightshade...
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and any of the other thousands of varieties of spuds you'd care to mane...
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the stubbornly invasive caroline horse nettle is solanum as well...you'll have to dig up representations of eggplant blooms on your own.
fredhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00169737219033981431noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7613802542274182457.post-35516219952241672232023-07-23T13:59:00.000-05:002023-07-23T13:59:02.000-05:00nearing the end of july out back<div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEge4vZDKsYJ42Ta2DX3dcDocCL76VY4P1FlTMfBhYbCN9EF3UrgKi_sOzK8zFngVMM0D8eXfWsw9MNDKlMhCNoYl867xziKvhafasgEZOTpsx4VoTWBWy_PCTDcAPBRvXtUL9O8SBDiFy9pvu3EzUBAB-lELPSaElqnwfQoiIWXSKGhVIPpsh01V2ZBxgY/s4608/DSCN7422.JPG" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0; text-align: center; clear: left; float: left;"><img alt="" border="0" width="320" data-original-height="3456" data-original-width="4608" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEge4vZDKsYJ42Ta2DX3dcDocCL76VY4P1FlTMfBhYbCN9EF3UrgKi_sOzK8zFngVMM0D8eXfWsw9MNDKlMhCNoYl867xziKvhafasgEZOTpsx4VoTWBWy_PCTDcAPBRvXtUL9O8SBDiFy9pvu3EzUBAB-lELPSaElqnwfQoiIWXSKGhVIPpsh01V2ZBxgY/s320/DSCN7422.JPG"/></a></div>
my back yard recieved a touch over two inches of rain in about two hours yesterday evening...no complaints about that...
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there was no hail, however the rain was heavy at times and it caused some of the teosinte to lean...
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no worries though...it is a maize ancestor, and like its progeny you can simply stand it back up...i buttressed them with some garden soil and no harm done...
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recent rains have induced new irruptions of dryad's saddles on the dead elm...
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a bit of left handed scale...
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the jerusalem artichokes have topped six feet and under that netting to the left are a wealth of seedless grapes which the camera seems unable to focus on...i have some stunning shots of the netting however...
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i could get some clear photos of the concord grapes in the fir tree however...these will be netted soon enough as well...
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the mooseberry bush, which looked like a dead stick to me a couple of springs ago, has topped the cage with new growth...we will be turning him loose soon...theey can reach twelve feet in height i am told...the jerusalem artichokes have a challenger for the verticality crown...
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the everbearing strawberries are bearing...
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the four corners potatoes are looking robust...
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and the largest is signaling an attempt to bloom...these are new to me, however i would presume if the blooms hold there may be four corners potato fruits in the offing...i will keep my expectations in check...potatoes produce fruits rarely ( around here at any rate...cool, wet weather seems to be a requirement )..and these are of the same family...more news as it occurs...
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there are tomatoes...
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and the hopi blue maize is looking sturdy, if short.fredhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00169737219033981431noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7613802542274182457.post-13753900970671662762023-07-18T16:12:00.000-05:002023-07-18T16:12:13.824-05:00beans<div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMSOOj0xNZnymRxsB03NE9FqUtej8si4rR5t0CypMarmAXv-E8H-T4xQFioGrHXxNRb0PlNnrUxUpfpX-pjTq1ytH6yRWGIidN3L1lR1ljlwy1FzoLHqAZBgo7y5WjzKdW3aT3M9SO4rukHgIchxYY5QDKLo2oOVzJRFTfTXXoBq5TMK1QC1WQdT28Nxg/s4608/DSCN6812.JPG" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0; text-align: center; clear: left; float: left;"><img alt="" border="0" width="320" data-original-height="3456" data-original-width="4608" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMSOOj0xNZnymRxsB03NE9FqUtej8si4rR5t0CypMarmAXv-E8H-T4xQFioGrHXxNRb0PlNnrUxUpfpX-pjTq1ytH6yRWGIidN3L1lR1ljlwy1FzoLHqAZBgo7y5WjzKdW3aT3M9SO4rukHgIchxYY5QDKLo2oOVzJRFTfTXXoBq5TMK1QC1WQdT28Nxg/s320/DSCN6812.JPG"/></a></div>
when out into the rural area east of here to visit one of my daughters and while i was there i had a look at what, this year, is a bean field and was the scene of last october's combine adventure...
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the corn stubble clearly indicates a no-til planting...
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the ears, with kernels intact, shows that combines are not 100% efficient ( to be expected on presumes, they are anthropogenic ) and the stubble the combine spit out on the field further confirms no-til...
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in the past i have found volunteer corn growing virtually directly from the ear...
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not so today in the bean field...
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or in what is either my daughter's yard encroaching on the field...or the corn colonizing the lawn...either wat we have volunteers from what i am assuming is hybrid corn...if it survives it will of interest to see if it produces...
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and, briefly.here at home there is deliberately planted hopi blue maize...
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and teosinte coming along.
fredhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00169737219033981431noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7613802542274182457.post-4816040914793417342023-07-14T10:24:00.004-05:002023-07-14T10:27:26.583-05:00there seems to be no escaping spuds anymore<div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1pPJuQ37t_eG-Z3e6HkBzo4HCwh-E6ZXjJQ-x1IX1O2MU2Su87yCPh4hADJLJ4ORWh19XOo8bwdYzSJ6AGrIbuYE9N2VWfVgokX59E3x4n6ITGaxf2OIyZZWT9oJvnCUn2VzgwcmntbPT7tYknNj81GX1w_zBf71D8wWnwTXxxIFbFiK4aam2pbOM2nA/s2048/IMG_3503.JPG" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0; text-align: center; clear: left; float: left;"><img alt="" border="0" width="320" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1pPJuQ37t_eG-Z3e6HkBzo4HCwh-E6ZXjJQ-x1IX1O2MU2Su87yCPh4hADJLJ4ORWh19XOo8bwdYzSJ6AGrIbuYE9N2VWfVgokX59E3x4n6ITGaxf2OIyZZWT9oJvnCUn2VzgwcmntbPT7tYknNj81GX1w_zBf71D8wWnwTXxxIFbFiK4aam2pbOM2nA/s320/IMG_3503.JPG"/></a></div>
the lawn at the campus garden is making it clear that there has been rain of late...we will see how long that keeps up...
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rain or not this asparagus is dying back and it is far too early for that...i am uncertain of what is up here...the spear is not broken so there must be something else at work...the rest seems to be fine...this too we will wait and see about...
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the spuds are looking well...
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the soil is moist up to the surface...so no watering...
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some of the spuds have finished up...so...
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there was a harvest...
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three plants...two pounds two ounces of tubers...and a few drops to plant...and i left the smallest ones in the bed as volunteers...
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an important correspondent to this blog will be pleased at the alfalfa's continuing disdain...
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it is still blooming away...
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and attracting visitors...
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however many of the blooms have gone to seed...
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and i do not think all the yellow in the leaves is from overwatering...there are early hints of autumn in the air...
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irrespective of what event time is hinting at the alfalfa still stubbornly goes about the business of establishing new stands around the garden...another determined perennial.
fredhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00169737219033981431noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7613802542274182457.post-23828327672427773222023-07-07T14:02:00.001-05:002023-07-07T14:02:18.933-05:00actually, more spuds ( whithout maize )forgot to mention...
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the four corners potatoes are chugging along as well...fredhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00169737219033981431noreply@blogger.com0