another afternoon...more change

as if the south bed isn't busy enough...

not only does it have its share of wild strawberries, their stolons and daughter plants...

as well as ripening berries...

and spuds and onions...

it is now home to a couple of chinese yam vines ( i know they are yams...you can tell by the leaves ) which seem to have sprung up overnight but were, more likely, simply overlooked by the gardener...

there is other work going on around the yard...i can now count eleven ears on the potted teosinte plants...

over on the north end i can count six ramps preparing to flower...two more than the other day...

and at least one stand of winter rye is nearly as tall as the gardener ( it also has the largest ear of rye i have ever seen..i will be practicing artificial selection and keeping that one for seed for the autumn planting...hoping to grow a lot of plants with large ears )...there will be a harvest in the next month or so...then threshing ( much easier than wheat ) and winnowing ( every bit as much of a pain ) and more storage until it is ground.