well...i don't know how things transpire in your life, but in mine things rarely turn out exactly as planned...the garden is no exception...the teosinte, for instance, is stalled in peat pots in my livingroom...about twenty plants worth of non-failure, but non-success as well...still looking for that breakthrough moment...some of the elephant garlic has ripened and i've harvested two of them...one weighed in at 126.2 grams the other 202 even, so that went off pretty well...the book says they mature in ninety to one hundered and ten days...i pegged those at nintey-nine with the floweing one confusing the hell out of me...it has remained unchanged for weeks...someone or something crushed a potato plant..half of it looked as though it could survive so i hilled it to support it on thursday...as you can see by the second photo it looks pretty well wilted this morning and so i will check to see if it had produced anything on my next trip out, probably monday...the jerusalem artichokes are well over six feet tall now and starting to flower..they are exceptionally hardy individuals...nothing particularly fragile there...they are native to this place, so that isn't much of a surprise...but it's nice all the same...as usual i uploaded the last two photos in exactly the inverse order i wanted them...the bottom one is the garden as it looked on april thirteenth of this year and the second to last is one from today...we've made progress and i really couldn't be more pleased...if we plan through the autumn and prepare the garden for winter we should be able to reprise our success in the garden's seconsd season...we only need our luck to hold until this year's is harvested
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