eastern gamagrass removal

after forty-five minutes of hacking away with a shovel, lops, shears, and a saw i reduced the remnant of this clump of gamagrass to ground level ( remind me to put an edge on that shovel before i do this again )...the others will have to wait...while i was at it i removed the asparagus, separating the seed bearing plants form those that were not...i will be saving those and planting some about, but there are many and if anyone would like some seed from five year old organically grown asparagus let me know...i harvested some late season potatoes from the seemingly eternal early blues...there are still some potato fruits on the vine so i am not prepared to haul them all in just yet...progress on the shut-down...more to do.

teosinte

i went to check for ears on the northern tepehuan teosinte...however, in a first in my experience, something or someone got there first...it was down on the ground and either browsed or cut with no eats ( or much of anything else ) in sight...so i pulled it and that gave me an opportunity to take a clear photo of the support roots ( third photo 0...the fourth photo is of the support roots on the zea diploperennis plant in the bottom photo...just another bit of morphology linking annual and perennial teosinte to maize.