a quiet season

the pgp isn't getting that much air time this year and that is, i think, because there isn't that much showy stuff going on over there...there are three different strains of intermediate wheat grass from the land institute in there ( the tall ones among the other grasses in the fourth photo )and they are doing well...they are non-natives and have obviously adapted to the environment and i will have some results to send to kansas later in the season...there aren't a lot of food crops though...the asparagus season is done and the hopi blue ( nicely tillering in the to photo ) isn't close to producing yet...the yams have pretty much stopped growing vines and have diverted that energy into reproduction ( more of those peculiar spherical blooms in the third photo )and the meager harvest that tha energy drain will leave isn't due until autumn...jerusalem artichokes were banished from the garden ( and into my over colonized back yard ) by the wheat grass...so all the rest that's growing is grasses like the teosinte in the second photo and eastern gamagrass ( which appears at the right of the bottom photo )...not much that most people get excited about...it's still there outside hawthorn hall and people still stop by to chat when i'm out there ( although i saw zero people at six thirty this morning ) but it doesn't inspire any particularly purple prose...it has purpose and it is fulfilling that...it's just not really front page news...the bottom photo is proof that it was still there at a bit before seven o'clock this morning...it will be there tomorrow too...and next season...that's still being planned.