birthday celebration

any regular readers of this blog will remember "puddles" the toughest wheat plant the hoosier state has ever seen, that germinated in a puddle of water in my basement about a year ago...

grew under the lights in my basement all winter...

was moved outside on what i thought were its last legs in spring only to have a rejuvenation...

produce ears...

and grow to fruition...

well today is my sixty-fifth birthday and to celebrate i took five of puddles' seeds from my stash and...

and planted them under the lights in a container last inhabited by some teocintli...

the original puddles cohabited with two onions so to keep continuity i took a couple of aerial bulbs i had left over from an egyptian walking onion and put them in as well...we will be watching..another generation coming along.