unscheduled indoor move...ready or not the season begins

this mashua plant out in the half barrel is still looking good...the first frost will end that...they are not cold tolerant...one of the three had died back and i dug it up yesterday and...disappoitingly...i found zero tubers...so i decided to act...

i mixed some potting soil and vermiculite in a container...

and dug the third plant up out of the barrel, leaving as much soil around the roots as possible ( it has been raining so the soil was soft and the plant came up readily ) to avoid root shock...

and i planted it under the lights...i brought in a trellis from the barrel to give the plant a place to vine and i festooned it with some of "puddles" garland for good luck..that was a mighty long lived resilient plant...

we will be growing her offspring from her seed in spring...

a...i am uncertain how to term it so let's say twig...broke off the plant in transit so i dipped it in rooting hormone and planted it with the rooted plant...sometimes this works...sometimes not...we will see...

it's october and milkweed pods aren't all i will be collecting...i have a dozen butterfly weed pods to harvest and share...

and the delicate yellow blooms on the sweet clover...

are producing delicate little seed pods...

the teosinte has produced many ears...there is a threat of frost this week...so i will bee covering the clustered plants and leaving the outlying ones in the open...to save work and materials and to act as a sort of control to see if the frost exposed seeds come out viable...making a virtue of a necessity i imagine.