backyard plants

all sorts of stuff up out back with more on the way...the top photo is a couple o raised beds of winter wheat...the wheat out back is running a couple of weeks behind the wheat on campus but has finally developed seed heads...still looking for a harvest next month and a replanting of the seed in october after the cowpeas run their course ( the inoculant i ordered to t oreat the cowpea seeds to enhance the growth of rhyzobia bacteria has arrived...we will be intensifying the effect of the green manure out back...but, i think, not on campus...that will have to occur with out and human intervention )..the second photo is today's good news...the primitive cultivar negra ojosa has come up in the half barrel...it's still fairly small, but it looks quite a bit darker in color than the red nordland in the third photo...an intermediate step in domestication that has been improved in some characteristics ( it is edible for instance where as the alkaloids in wild potatoes make them too bitter [ and possibly toxic] to eat ) but hasn't been developed into a landrace...hoping for some identifiable morphological differences besides a darker color...there will be more photos...the fourth photo is of one of the eleven zea diploperennis plants up out there...i put the pots with the roots from the basement teosinte out on the south side of the house ( the eventually went dormant ) and i am pleased to say that they have both put out new growth and seem headed for a second season..admittedly not as improbable as the campus teosinte's second season but it's encouraging to know that i may actually be able to winter them over indoors for multiple seasons...the last photo is of a raised bed chock full of jerusalem artichokes...there are thirty of them spread out over the yard working on overcoming the rhyzome barriers i put in last year...tenaciously invasive devils..be forewarned...there ar eplants i didn't upload photos of...snow peas, scarlet runner beans, sunflowers, turnips, beets, radishes are all up...squash will be in soon...and i hope my hopi blue four corn seed arrives soon...that will go on campus along with some green oaxacan dent...more as it comes up...