There are two horsemint plants blooming and budding their pink towers in the backyard!A lone Rudbeckia amplexicaulis is attempting a flower. Pima Club wheat has seeds!!One marigold has started in the front yard!
So, even with covering, 12° F was too cold for the baby wheat. All wilted and dead. Oh well. It made it through 15 before, so it may have just been for too long, or finally past a threshold.
Leaves to insulate the baby bok choyLeaves to insulate the baby lettuceThe screen (made to keep rabbits out) holds the leaves in, in case there is wind.Apparently one should blanch small round fruit before attempting to make raisins. Regular ground cherries.A chironomid fly adult chilling near garage door.Some sort of cutworm, on collard greens, the previous night. I threw it out in yard where hopefully the mockingbird will find it.I touched another dog!The Chef successfully made honey mead! We tried it. Was good. He says it needs to age now.Crabapple jelly central.Hanging out in his haunted mansion.
Got this cool season wheat from Native Seed Search. It sprouted yesterday!!! One of the lettuce seeds from Paula (Parris Island Cos Romaine) also came up the day before yesterday, on Thursday.