Garden pictures and a video...

 

The potato patch. I spotted my first potato beetle larvae and was going to spray. Rain was predicted so it will have to wait until tomorrow. Looking toward the northwest.

Peppers in the foreground. Tomatoes in the back. This slice is east of the potatoes and I am looking north.

Sweet corn patch. The six rows I planted later are doing OK. The four rows I replanted are germinating but something is pulling them up. Crows? My back-up plan involves turnips, rutabagas, radishes and beets.

Cowpeas germinating. You might have to hunt for them but there are two pushing in the image. I think I planted them June 7ish.

Geneva Red grape vine with clusters forming.

Liberty apple tree on MARK rootstock. MARK was slammed for not being drought resistant. Frankly, I do not know of any productive, small-semi-dwarf rootstock that IS drought resistant. Life is about trade-offs.

A youtube video I enjoyed. Turn off the sound and run it at 1.25X speed.

They use poly houses and transplants to maximize the amount of canopy intercepting sunlight. They use livestock to glean protein from crop-waste. I saw a rooster tethered, maybe to a moveable peg or a dead-weight...something to think about. Many baskets in use. Kids as young as 6 or 7 are productive, washing dishes, herding goats, cutting forage. I wonder how long this land has been under cultivation.

Rhetorical question

Are non-binary Wiccans considered Hexadecimal?