just a routine maintenance visit really...no special projects...just needed to check up on the garden...weed a bit ( university crabgrass mostly)...water some things and take a few photos...i noticed last time i was at the garden ( yesterday) that the yam vines are behaving differently this season...you can see in the first two photos that the vines are sprouting new vines at nodes interspersed along them...last year those nodes flowered and produced aerial bulbs...these yam roots are now in their third season and i am curious to see if the root system is big enough that it is driving more vine growth and so produce more bulbs before the season is over...they came out of dormancy quite late actually ( remember i thought the mole damaged one was a goner)...when i harvested last autumn i left quite a bit of yam at the end of the root ( there was none on the root when i first received it for planting in fall 2009 ) perhaps that extra energy impelled more vigorous growth...i am looking into this...but i think observation might be a better teacher...if you click on the middle photo and enlarge it you'll find a dragonfly perched on the yam trellis...it was a toss up whether to post this or a photo of yet another asparagus spear emerging in summer, but we've seen a lot of asparagus and this is the first insect photo of the year i think...photo four is teosinte support roots ( still geeked that this grew...i was on a mission on this particular species...wish it had succeeded a year ago)...bottom photo is the jerusalem artichoke stand in full flower...neat.
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