things are coming along outside hawthorn hall in mid-may...the potato patch now has a dozen residents, including leona, red pontiac, and the scottish-born craigs' snowwhite...there will be a few more varieties added later this month...the intermediate wheat grass from th eland institute in kansas is greening up very nicely and will be producing seed heads in the next couple of months...the starlings ravaged them last year and i may be bagging the heads in an effort to harvest more seed...i am hoping to salvage a couple of them at least when dormancy sets in in autumn...but this will be their third season ( the first was in kansas ) and i have some question about how much disruption a three year old perennial root system can absorb and how much of it is enough to maintain the plant? i am no wheat grass expert so i will be improvising and doing all the research i can...perhaps t eland institute can advise...i see an email in the works...there are eleven shoots up in the old stand of perennial teosinte and it is unfortunate but i don't think these will do well in transplanting ( not that that will keep me from trying )..the bottom photo is of a greening pgp on may 15th...we aren't done yet.
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