solanum in the garden

i hadn't been tot he community garden in a few days...life has been militating against a trip but it relented a bit this morning so i went...the fist thing i found was a failure...the replacement tesointe has died ( first photo )....so even though it is late i believe i will germinate a replacement and keep trying...the other plant has deployed a fourth leaf and seems happy enough ( second photo )...and the rest of the bed seems to be doing well...the egyptian walking onion ( third photo ) is almost two feet tall and the aerial bulb is coming along...the spuds ( fourth ) are looking robust and there is an ear of rye ( fifth ) racing to finish before it is subsumed by the growing jerusalem artichokes ( sixth )...i looked in on my government spuds this morning and found the time to plant had arrived ( another trigger for a trip ) so i went and planted five more spuds..a dark red ( seventh ) which is not a government, rather a locally procured seed potato...one from accession bs286 ( eighth ) ..a blue shetland ( ninth )...one from accession gs427...and an early blue ( tenth )...finally i deiscovered some carolina horsenettle growing in the old biology club bed...i took some home..more on that in the next post.

spuds, ramps, and a shot of zea

clearly i missed some tubers last year since i now have ten volunteer potatoes in the jerusalem artichoke bed ( first two photos )...there are some deliberately placed ones out there ( third through fifth ) and while i was rooting around in the bins in the plant room checking for problems ( no more blackleg rot to report...so far ) i found a dark red and a yukon gold ( sixth and seventh respectively) that seemed about ready so i put them out in containers ( eighth )...i planted four elmer's blue spuds as well so there are now thirty-eight in the ground including the volunteers with more to come...it is mid may and the ramps are beginning to die back ( ninth) i will be looking for plants that want to flower soon...hoping for more seed to share and spread around the yard just to see what happens...the plant in the tenth photo tells me we will be seeing corny looking leaves very soon as the teosinte greens up...finally the last photo is a spike of rhubarb seeds...lots of them...both plants are producing an extravagant amount...it is lamentable i don't like rhubarb in any of its mutations...this could be the mother lode for someone...i will take a pass.