162. Doing the farming right (4)- This Month's Share

The cucumber seeds came out of Cold Storage after the morning meal.

Mira carried the protected packets herself. Carlos followed her toward the Rare Farmland while Rowan and the farmers finished making the new climbing frames.

The original cucumber bed stayed where it was. Four Water-touched vines grew there, including the one Rowan had matured with Life Bloom, and the Living Scarecrow was already walking around its assigned path.

"These are the protected four," Mira said, handing Rowan the packets. "The other four stay back until you tell me what happened here."

Rowan read each label before opening it. Carlos remembered when all twelve seeds had come out of one cucumber and everyone had argued over how many could be planted.

Now they had four healthy test vines, Rare land, and a farmer who could feel something inside a plant before it even showed on the leaves.