its sternest shape

perhaps not its "sternest shape" as far as temperature goes...

there has, however been a considerable amount of snow overnight and into this morning...

this, for instance, is the winter rye...

and this is the garlic in the bed of my truck...

still some teosinte seed hanging on...

and a little green left on the brussels sprouts...

the snow grinds on...more is forecast...it is very quiet outside.

sheltered

in the season sheltered from the elements in the basement the teosinte ears are coming along well...

the mashua continues to climb the trellises...

the shriveled and almost lost bookshelf spud has nascent leaves on the tips of the sprouts...so..we were not too late...good news...i did have to provide some support for the "leggy" spud that has moved in next door to Jean's puddle wheat...it had fallen over yesterday....upright today...

speaking of puddle wheat, it is looking robust even though i can discern no signs of any ears yet...

finally, the slow-going yacon is well, and the third rhizome has put up two stems ( it was by far the larger of the three i planted ) it will doubtlessly finish it season outdoors...it is a slowpoke.

indoor parallel

these two teosinte plants on the other side of the plant room...

have joined the three in the container on the other side in deploying silks...so at least six nascent ears...here's hoping they all come to maturity...

and the spud i rescued from the bookshelf two days ago? greening at the tips...we were, i believe, in time.

february seeds

winter has returned again to the south end of the inland sea...not in de quincey's "sternest shape"...but winter none the less...some ears have yet to shatter.

books and spuds

i was muddling around a bookshelf looking or something to peruse for the evening...

when i came across a seriously chitted spud that had obviously been there fro some time, quietly doing what spuds do in indirect light and the proper temperature range...

so downstairs we went where i planted the patient plant in a peat pot, gave it a shot of water, and found a spot under the nursery light for it to call its own...there is significant green at the ends of the sprouts so i am reasonably sure that i found it in time to avert disaster...we will be keeping an eye on him but i suspect the next step is going to be finding a spot uner the more crowded conditions in the plant room...speaking of which...

the yacon us booming along...

while the mashua is in varying stages of development...

there are clearly defined teosinte ears developing...

and a very happy onion cohabiting with the puddle wheat is helping entertain a neighborly spud...so far..so good...actually far better than expected.

somewhat less gleaned

when i last stopped in on the bean field behind the big box stores seventy days ago i found multiple stalks with full bean pods the harvester had missed...

today i found a lot of trash...the ubiquitous plastic...in bottle and bag form ( walmart seems to be everywhere )...

and a lot of those self same unharvested pods...

with many industrial soy beans still at large...unlike last week's field of dense yellow #2, the local wildlife seems to be finding the beans unappetizing at best...i will look for volunteer corn in the field next to the supermarket when it is planted in beans next season...i would wager i will have better luck finding volunteer beans in this one when it becomes a corn field again ( providing it is planted at all...it is still for sale...you never know...someone may break ground for different planting )