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what is being watered is mostly annuals but there is one exception to the deep-rooted perennials in there too...there are potatoes ( a plant/replant perennial that behaves like an annual but isn't )and mashua ( annual ) in the top photo who are receiving a ration ...the native edibles purslane ( second photo ) and lamb's quarters ( third photo ) are being watered as well as possible too...i have made the zea diploperennis a special case perennial since i am still geeked by it and will preserve it as long as possible this season...there's a tomato plant that i didn't photograph today that's being nurtured as well...so it and the potatoes are the only really productive domesticates receiving any irrigart

...two thousand and fourteen

the red pontiacs in the potato patch are thriving ( top photo ) and the mashua seems at home in their shade ( second photo )...it is sub-tropical but grows at altitude in the andes, so it likes it a bit cooler...the shade may be the ticket here...the asparagus seedlings ( third photo ) are doing fine and are doomed to be extincted in a few months...i may try to move the crowns but i am not holding a lot of hope...the zea diploperennis in the last photo is even more doomed because i am certain it will not move...i have more seed to naturalize next spring but i am looking for a permanent site for that...probably my back yard...i am work at not disparaging university administrators here...i also don't trust them not to be forgetful ( if not fickle ) about commitments.

all clear

strong thunderstorms with heavy rain, wind, and hail that moved through late last night left the pgp unscathed...the mashua in the top photo is just fine as are the nascent asparagus and red pontiac potato in the second...while the dixie clover is in full bloom...i talked to tim form the ground crew yesterday and worked out a tenetive timetable for the shutdown this coming autumn...kindly he basically told me to take all the time i thought i needed but the end can commence as soon as the intermediate wheat grass i want to move gose sufficiently dormant and the seeds from the eastern gamagrass mature enough to shatter an gather to try to naturalize into a second generation stand somewhere on the periphery of the community garden...the pgp in the bototm photo gets greener by the day.