freeze dried?

There was a hard frost night before last so I went out to campus after work yesterday to have a look…the wheat grass plants form Kansas are doing well and I suspect they will adapt to their new surroundings without much of an issue…just keeping them watered until they go dormant so the roots can settle in…cold and dry…an interesting combination for a sub-tropical grass…I can’t really judge whether the zea diploperennis is wilting form the cold or curling form transpiration…it is extremely dry here still…the last time I was able to look the noaa website hadn’t put up the palmer drought indices for september yet, but I don’t see any good reason to think we’ve left the moderate drought we were in in august behind…stressed plants…we’ll see how cold hardy northern tepehuan teosinte is…i am not sanguine about it…but i have been fooled ( and made a fool of…particularly by plants ) before…this odd season is winding down among the perennials…a yam harvest sometime this month and then mulch for the asparagus , yams, and teosinte…and then some serious though and research on permaculture and regular visits to the wheat grass…on campus and in my absentee backyard.