teosinte silk and winter wheat

the northern tepehuan teosinte in my back yard ( and on campus for that matter ) has been flowering wildly for a month...the ten foot behemoth in the top photo has fifteen fully fledged blooms and more on the way...but this evening i found my first silks on the plants..like its descendant maize, the silks each attach to a seed ( supposing they are not called kernels )in the ear and fertilized by the pollen...the stalk below the silk in the fourth photo is thickening into an ear and soon the nascent seeds will be discernible...after failing to produce any ears last season i an reasonably geeked by the unfolding events...there will be much more on this as we go on into the autumn...meanwhile in the microcosm of the bed assigned to winter wheat there is more movement...the sprouts are up and small but they will grow quickly ( although not as quickly as their roots which are much deeper than the plant is tall ) and soon they will be tillering to establish themselves before dormancy...( if there is dormancy )...the season out back never ends and there is a grape harvest coming soon as well as a ton of tubers in the form of jerusalem artichokes...there is always news form the garden.