you rouges have sat too long

another maintenance day on campus and things are still moving...the spring wheat has grown enough that it actually shows up in a photo...the winter wheat should be done by mid-summer and the spring wheat won't finish until fall ( or the starlings won't finish it until fall)...a slow moving grain that takes forty to fifty days from he time either type starts to develop a seed head...okay..we have time...there ar enow eight asparagus spears up and stilla couple of plants haven't put in an appearance...neither has the mole damaged yam...that concerns me a bit...but not as much as if it hasn't shown up in a month will...i left plenty of starch on the end of the root when i harvested the yams so hopefully it has enough stored energy to ovecome any damage...the second photo is a nacent jerusalem artichoke that is running well ( and that is spinach in the upper left)...the next is a photo of another rouge i found while hacking the lawn back from the garden ( the garden is the most organic plot of land around hawthorn hall and the lawn covets it) and transplanted to the garden proper...that makes a lucky thirteen where i planted six...and that's it...i culled a fourteenth one today and there will be no others...there is no room...leave a message if you'd like me to save you any more that i come across...they will be movable for a few weeks yet...if not they're compost...as soon as things warm up a bit and the dense yellow number two maize starts to go in around county line road we'll start to look at morphology a bit earlier this year...new wheat grass and gamagrass up and running to provide a comparison among grasses...i see some sprouts in the teosinte bed here at home....but i don't trust it to be anything yet...no jumping the gun...i am hoping to get some comparison with another bona fide maize ancestor (i have gamagrass and i am on mary eubank's side in the corn war...as if that matters)but i'm not promising anything just yet...and perhaps a photo essay on erosion and just how much bare earth there is in a field of dense yellow number two or soy beans...or both.