cycles

some develop quickly...some take their sweet time...but the cycles in the back yard are all moving towards autumn, like it or not...the chinese yams ( first and second photos ) are dying back...but not without producing the vehicles of reproduction ( not to mention the tuber from the plant...buried deep in the bed which will produce vines next spring no matter what )...there are many aerial bulbs to be seen ( third )...i harvested eighty-six ( fourth ) and i doubtlessly missed some...this is why these are easily as invasive a colonizer as jerusalem artichokes...each one potentially a vine and a tuber...probably all perennials are invasive...some slower than others ( try growing eastern gamagrass sometime ) but all relentless..some of the spuds are dying back ( fifth ) a ninety to one hundred and twenty day cycle there and both the mashua blanca and the bogota market are showing signs of winding down ( sixth and seventh )...still...some of the back yard andeans are going strong...the nasturtiums ( eighth ) and the yacon ( ninth ) show no signs of hanging up the season...the central american teosinte ( tenth and eleventh ) continue their excruciatingly long season...i see flowers but no silks yet..and in the back bed the new york impost wild strawberries ( this one is for Jean ) have a mother plant ( twelfth ) that has produced three daughters ( thirteenth through fifteenth )..and the last of those that i have pinned in a flower pot to move has produced a stolon of its own...part of my weekend will be deciding where it might thrive and then taking the time to move it...the garden never stops.