
My 2021 harvest from my selected purple popcorn! Progress! Everything was purple toned this year. I still lost some whole ears to mold, tops of ears to worms, but it wasn't too bad. Growing later in the year worked and not rushing to get a crop in. Can imagine planting more with sweet potatoes. The sweet potato failure this year i blame on the rabbits. Fie. And, i say failure, but i won't really know until i harvest. The vines haven't been crazy rampant.
Monday went pretty well personally, meh at home. I got things done according to my to do list; less so at work. A little overwhelmed by minutiae plus a "yam" (ie: something that has become unpleasant to an outsized amount.) I am spending lots of time on to do list management: i hope it's productive and not creating more to keep up with (record) than i need to. Today, Tuesday seemed about the same. A significant yard thing was mowing the steep banks up by the road and eradicating the stilt grass. I'm not sure that any wildflower plants survived under the blanket from last fall's seeding. I'll see about scattering seeds from the "meadow."
In the evening i started a new sourdough starter, Kitta Grau. I tried a 50-50 mix of water and rye, it seems far too stiff. Tonight i adjusted to 50-25-25 water, rye, previous starter. If that works, it will soon be essentially two parts water, on part rye. I guess rye flour's hydration properties are significantly different than wheat's.
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And yeah, rye requires and soaks up fluid like nobody's business.
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Have you worked with rye flour much? Please tell me your secrets!
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Eventually i bought The Rye Baker and let my culture Hans die and just stopped. I've got plenty of rye taking up space in the pantry, seeds, malted rye.... all just waiting for me to start over. So this time, i'm going to give it a go again with tested recipes from a cook book. Except i am already stuck with the flour i have and i am already saying to myself "oh, i'll just substitute my flour in that recipe" or "maybe i can just soak rye berries and blend them up instead of buying rye meal" or -- and i need to follow the blinking directions for a while.
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But the starter is finally bubbling as of this morning! Yesterday and today i took the discard and made a simple flatbread by just adding enough additional flour to the discard. Yum.
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You need coyotes in your neighborhood. My neighbors around the corner were avid gardeners back in my suburban days, and they were always delighted when the coyotes rotated dens and ended up near us.
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