a tramp around the yard

i started an early stroll around the yard with a week old maize plant...

and, a few feet away in the same bed, its ancestor teosinte...there is a certain family resemblance...however it has been clouded by the many generations ( and alterations...all artificial ) between them...

the potted teosinte continues to flower and i count an even dozen ears now...

the winter rye is in full bloom...

while the winter vetch is playing catch up

the chinese yam vine is growing and adding leaves...

and the strawberries are ripening in what seems to be serial fashion...

there is activity in the ramp bed as there are now eight plants preparing to flower...

and some have died back completely above ground...that isn't the whole reproductive story however...

ramps are members of the allium family and they share some morphology and behaviors with other members of that family..including bunching...i dug a couple of the ramps that had died back and the had both bunched in the time since march...two for one...

so i separated them and replanted them in more sparsely populated ares of the bed...as they die back i will be digging them up and replanting, or using, the bunched ramps as my aim is to completely fill the bed and maintain it as a renewable source of wild seasoning...

while i was rooting around in the ramp bed i ran across an earth worm...flowers, ears, ;leaves, reproduction, worms...a good time this morning.