teosinte and garlic

the northern tepehuan teosinte in my yard is flowering nicely...there is a third plant with a flower just emerging and the single plant on campus has flowered as well so there should be enough cross pollination to ( hopefully ) produce ears before the frosts hit...the mail brought a box of red inchelium seed garlic from baker creek heirloom seeds...five bulbs with enough cloves to start thirty-five plants...there's another half pound on the way from sustainable seeds so there will around sixty plants worth altogether...enough to share around and begin fall planting in the community garden this coming weekend...so there will be bed clearing for garlic as well as green manures and cover crops in the offing...as a bonus they sent a packet of red romaine lettuce seeds...lettuce and garlic will be among the very first things up in the garden next spring along with a mix of snow peas and spinach as the opening salvo in a season-long rotation of crops for continuous harvest ( or, as continuous as we can make it )...this season isn't over but it's not too early to start a plan for the next.