i don't like the look of this...

…well…not all of it…i took the day off work and as part of the festivities i went out to campus to try to find some folks ( limited success but there was a fine conversation with steve mcshane at the calumet regional archives ) and check up on the garden…as i was taking photos of the wheat grass form Kansas what did i find? two jerusalem artichokes and a whole bunch more chinese yam bulbs…i have remarked before that almost all perennials seem to be invasive but this is ridiculous…i have already pulled seven hundred aerial bulbs out of the garden and will surely be culling rouge sunchokes next spring…it is a thankless task and the perennial grain represented by the wheat grass will require vigilance just to keep competition at bay…the yam vines have died back and I believe i will be out there over the weekend to harvest the yams…i simply cannot allow them to have as much stored energy this coming season as i did this year…no laziness…do the work…the asparagus continues to die back even as the “berries ripen…still an opportunity for anyone who wants to establish a bed from scratch…they will be cut back and mulched in the next few weeks…a surprise in the discovery of a couple of late season turnips…obviously they germinated when the weather cooled and here they are…alas i found no-one to give then to so they are in the fridge…the wheat grass from the land institute seems to be thriving…the weather had been warm for October…certainly warmer than the twenty or twenty five degrees dr. dehaan warned me to be on the lookout for the first three weeks the plants were in the ground…we’re past that point and hopefully they will be just fine over the winter…harvest post this coming weekend.