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With the grains and pseudo-grains I'm more thinking about winter forage for the velociraptors. Many of those plants are pretty drought tolerant, and if they can reseed themselves I can let the chickens in during the winter and lock them out in the spring so the system can recover...

I need to plant corn, finish the beans, and start on cover crops. Experimenting with pseudo-grains this year. Amaranth, quinoa, sesame and chia are in the ground.

I get that. My obsession with seeds and planting should be in the DSMV.

Not a matter of "hearing," technically, but I'm happy to let you ramble.

Case in point. It was time to plant chia and I could NOT find the seeds. I had them 10 minutes ago! Finally found them, tucked down inside one of the pots I set out to plant the chia in. A logical place, since I intended to plant them. Wasted half an hour searching.

I walked into this room while initially touring the house. There was a grow light in the ceiling fixture and built-in shelves. My growers heart immediately wanted it.

Seed closet.

I did find my apricot seeds, though. They're coming up in the pot marked "currants." 🤣

Yup. Me too. Buy a new one, go to put it away in the "logical" place, and viola! Problem is, I find things when not looking for them and go "Oh, I need to put that away," and I move on. Then I can't remember where I saw it!

I can't find a bunch of my seeds, and it's getting very frustrating. Clary sage, sage, raspberry, wild plum, serviceberry, aronia, currant. I planted clary sage and sage earlier this spring and now can't find the seeds. I have 5 wild plum seeds in the 'fridge, but where is the rest of the...

Planted persimmons for the shelterbelt, a raspberry and two blackberries for me. Beans are well up. No corn yet. If I do lentils again next year I'll wait until the beginning of April. About half of them have died. Lost four tomatoes in last night's storm, but two potatoes are up that...

I once had a population that was pretty cold tolerant, but that wasn't my goal so the seeds got mixed in with the rest when I was finished. I wish now that I had kept them separate. I was testing to see if they would flower earlier, and they never did. Four years in a row they were planted...

Planted the first set of tomatoes. I know they'll probably get frosted, but the hope is that the mulch will protect them enough to come back from the root, possibly conferring a bit more cold tolerance to their descendants.

Planted potatoes. Tomorrow I start planting corn. It's been so dry that I'm thinking deep planting might be better.

Friends came over and we got woodchips moved! Main garden is now covered, and it only took about a quarter of the woodchips. I think I'll plant the raspberries along what’s left of the piles. An apple seedling I thought was dead came up from the root and a single rhubarb plant survived its...

That could be altered by saying "pests" instead of "wasps." Use the same picture, of course.

I set my first greenhouse into the side of a south-facing hill. 2nd (new area) is right against the house, although I did anchor it so it doesn't move in the wind and hit the house. 3rd is on an elevated porch and it's a cattle panel greenhouse, although it isn't surviving 80 mph winds very...

Beans last week in the dry garden. Lentils are up and apparently thriving. Today quinoa, beets, spinach. All of these have had the last water they'll get from me. I found two survivors from the diakon radish. Three rutabagas and one parsnip survived no water last summer, and then a cold winter...

If I remember correctly, Tartarian is the direct ancestor of Bing and the Utah Giant was a seedling from a Bing. The self sterility would appear to be genetic.

Well, when I sold my old house I left the 40 yo but still functional washer behind, with a box of parts for the most common problems. My mower blades, filters and tires won't need to be purchased again, which I take as a win. If I sell the mower, the new owner will get them. Simple enough to...