more mixed signals in the pgp

some of the jerusalem artichokes continue to flower while their neighbors are in the process of dying back for the season...behavior i do not recall form past seasons and still another indication that it has been an odd year all around...i am told that the local apple crop has suffered large-scale losses because of the weather extremes, and while preliminary harvests of sunchokes in the garden indicate near normal production it still hasn't stopped the plants from unusual activity above ground...a grasshopper was visiting the northern tepehuan teosinte...he's welcome to stay for lunch...but then needs to move on...the eastern gamagrass continues to throw out terminal spears and they keep on flowering...wildly reproductive this season, i have collected an abundance of seed if anyone is interested in testing its viability ( notoriously difficult to germinate,,,and it needs cold to break dormancy...november is the recommended month for direct seeding so act soon )...the last photo is of the pgp looking towards the east as the sun rises a bit higher in the sky ( about 8 a.m. or so )...sunchoke harvest begins in earnest soon to make way for a new batch of interesting ( i hope...will be for me anyway ) perennials migrating in from out of state later this month...more as it comes up.