gamagrass

the gamagrass continues to produce proaxes ( i counted 140 today ) and they are at all different stages of their cycles from those that are flowering to terminal spears that have lost the blooms and are in the process of drying out prior to shattering...i first found emerging seeds on the sixteenth of may this year...twenty-two days earlier than the june seventh date from 2011...three weeks early seems about par for the course ( except the jerusalem artichokes ) but it is the number of proaxes and seeds that the plants have produced ( and continue to produce ) as opposed to last season that has really grabbed my attention...but in researching it i find that there is nothing really unusual in this...according to the university of missouri extension once the initial seed production begins it continues through the growing season...the only difference is they peg the growing season form july to september while this season started in may...so it seems i can look forward to a bumper crop of seeds that are contrarian about timing and retrieval ( the university of missouri says seed recovery "requires careful timing" and that recovering all the seeds is "difficult"...i believe them ) this may be why they are considered invasive

7-7-2012 12:09 p.m. ___________________ i added in the out of place photo because i forgot to mention that another blatant over reproducer is starting to come on line in the garden...the chinese yam flowers are dying back and the vines are beginning to produce another bumper crop of dna...aerial bulbs are beginning to form ( and drop off...i had to recover a couple i knocked off when i grabbed the vine) another difficult to control species out there...which seems to be fairly common among perennials...which is reasonable, especially among rootstock perennials like asparagus and chinese yams...they never really leave ( and the asparagus isn't being slouchy about reproducing either) by the time the founding plant finally dies off generations of progeny have taken root in a colony...dna is relentless stuff.