Friday, August 18, 2017

blooms and reproduction

one of the potato plants in the asparagus bed has bloomed ( first photo ) and, if we are fortunate, it will produce fruits like its cousin the carolina horse nettle has ( second )...just for the sake of a morphological comparison if nothing else...while we are in the asparagus bed ( third ) let's note it is looking robust and that there are still berries ( fourth and fith ) that will mean some asparagus from seed next season...unlike the deeply rooted asparagus, the shallower jerusalem artichokes look a bit water stressed ( sixth )...they were thoroughly watered and will perk up soon enough...despite being rather mercilessly trimmed ( seventh ) some flower buds were left behind and have begun to bloom ( eighth and ninth ) so there is the possibility of seed heads yet...it is not too late i'm thinking.

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