eastern gamagrass

it's been something of a peculiar season so far and it doesn't seem to be letting up...the mild winter and irrationally warm march have everything in an odd state...the gamagrass is nor excetion...the top photo shows it is humming along...nearly two feet tall and nicely greened up...the second photo is of seed head forming and it's fairly early for this particular slow moving grass...the second clump ( on the north side of the garden, third photo ) was concealing a second stand of volunteer spring wheat that i discovered this evening...so there's more to harvest in a month or so...fourth photo is of an absolute rope of chinese yam vines that have grown up all around the original two plants...not harvesting last autumn saved some wear and tear on things like the intermediate wheat grass but the stored energy that they have may make them every bit as difficult to control as the jerusalem artichokes are...it's only the middle of may, one can only wonder what august will be like...the bottom photo is the totemic improbable teosinte...i will be repeating my heavy mulching of the roots this autumn...the potted plants that i overwintered in the basement have shown me that this plant does have a period of dormancy despite being a sub-tropical perennial...the potted plants died back completely by february but i continued to water the roots once a week...i put the pots outside a week ago and one has four green shoots up and the other has six...some of these have already developed a second leaf so my hope is that by re-potting them during their next dormancy i can expand their root systems and, hopefully, get them to flower and seed...unrealistic perhaps, but we all need goals...potatoes, radishes, beets, snow peas, scarlet runner beans, jerusalem artichokes, chinese yams, asparagus. gamagrass, and wheat all up and running and my son just planted soybeans in the back yard today...maize by the end of the month and i have garlic on the way ( not here yet coach...email when it arrives )...theres more to plant later in the season as well...busy summer.