i suppose you could call it a harvest...

the isla caucahua plant was pretty much done so i took the spading fork to it and found potatoes no bigger than the ones i harvested from the half barrel here at home...this plant wasn't much more than eight or nine inches tall and it was in full sun its entire life so i am going to conclude that either this landrace produces small tubers or there were some daylength issues at work...the potatoes i planted in the spring weren't all that much bigger than the ones i have harvested...i was thinking the potato introduction station was saving the taxpayers money at first...but now i am not so sure...the third photo is of the zea family ( i have adopted it ) and the fourth one is of a ladybug on the hopi blue maize...the second one i have found this season and this is a much better photo since i'm becoming more accustomed to my new camera...the last photo is the perennial garden project on the morning of the last sunday in august 2012...breezy and not as hot as yesterday...the fall semester starts tomorrow so i tidied up...did some weeding and hoeing...dead headed the jerusalem artichokes...and then i watered...have to impress the freshmen.