it's meterological spring even if the calendar says it's winter

i drove over to campus after i got off work this afternoon just to see what ( if anything ) was up in the garden...the winter wheat is a green as i expected it to be...just like the wheat in the back yard it never really went dormant ( i believe ) because this has been a peculiar winter hereabouts...so i shouldn't be surprised that the eastern gamagrass is greening ( middle two photos ) nearly a month earlier than last year...i do believe it was a post on april fifth last year that saw the beginnings of greening...so we are a ways ahead of last spring...but last spring was a cold one...everything was late in getting started...i remember being concerned about he chinese yams ( and they did not vine a vigorously as they did in 2010 ) and even the jerusalem artichokes took their time...i am inclined to think there will be no such concerns this year...the intermediate wheat grass is greening up too (top and bottom photos )...so i will be going back to campus ( probably tomorrow ) to put in some teosinte seeds...i have to wonder about when to un-mulch the asparagus too...decisions decisons...