volunteers

drove over to campus after work just to check up on things and douse the garden with water...as i was looking around i noticed that there are volunteers there as well as here at home...i didn't plant any spring wheat this season but the top photo is exactly that...a small stand that is identifiable by the long awns on the seed heads...( winter wheat has much shorter awns )...then i went to photograph the elusive northern tepehuan teosinte ( elusive mostly because it blend in with the background so well it's difficult to see ) i found a volunteer potato in there...i find this really weird mostly because i grew potatoes in that particular part of the garden in 2010 and not since ( three year rotation because of disease and pests ) so i am at a loss to explain a volunteer that waited two years...but if that's what has happened it must be possible...the third photo is of a rope of chinese yam vines that have taken to the trellis with reckless abandon...there may be a need to expand it if this keeps up...the fourth phot is of the north side of the garden with gamagrass, teosint, and jerusalem artichokes all doing well...and the last photo is the obligatory teosinte close-up...i told my academic advisor it may well become totemic for the garden...and why not? a "wild and weedy ancestor" of the maize i will be planting later this month and a perennial to boot...not too bad a symbol for the project...if you ask me anyway.