population expansion and growth

both the mashua growing from a cutting...

and the tuber that sprouted a few days ago are moving right along with their season and are looking robust...

one of the chitted potatoes i planted last week has burst into leaf...others will follow...room will need to be made...

difficult as it may be to see in the first of the teosinte photos ( green on green seems to photograph poorly...or my skills aren't up to the challenge ) a fourth flower has appeared and all on the usda zea mexicana plants...they seem determined if premature...

last ( but surely not least ) Jean's "puddle wheat" in holiday finery.