Solanum tuberosum

the pgp's season is coming along just fine...the top photo is of some robustly vined chinese yams...both the plants entering their third season have multiple vines out and there are a few plants form errant bulbs here and there which may or may not thrive...the improbable teosinte continues to do well and looks to have good growth...it is far ahead of where it was last year...but it was only up from seed then and it was a very coll spring last year...probably not a fair comparison...but the teosinte form seed that's up is and it is about a month ahead of last year's sprouts...the biggest news today is that one of the red nordlands i planted eleven days ago is up...nine more to go and once one is up the others usually crop up in short order...hopefully a couple of weeks will see the government potatoes up and running as well...the bottom photo is of what promises to be a formidable stand of jerusalem artichokes...i have culled a few rouges this season but nothing like last year...i grew fewer plants last season and seem to have done a more thorough job o harvesting...nothing much turning up in unacceptable areas except one stubborn one in the teosinte bed...so far i'm pleases...geeked even...it will be more fun once the semester is over.