some plants indulge in cyclical reproduction...others not so much...that's a shattered seed pod form a hairy vetch plant ( top photo ) that has finished its cycle...if the garden was going to continue those seeds would germinate and produce overwintering plants that would flower next season...and set nitrogen in the soil...the second photo is of a hairy ( or winter ) vetch plant a few inches away that is flowering away...preparing to form new pods ( with the help of a bumble bee pollinator ) for as long as the weather permits...meanwhile a couple of feet away the chinese yams are still producing blooms ( third photo ) but that will be ending shortly and the plants will be spending energy to finish the maturation process that has already started on some of the vines ( bottom photo )the process has limits amn is not an open-ended process controlled only by the length of the season...eventually the yams will shif t gears and the bloom production will cease.
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