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["WILLIAM JONES" <billj AT harborside.com>]

 Here's the entire raft:http://home.earthlink.net/~clanl/px26.jpg
Here's green Malabar spinach, enjoying its new aquatic 
lifestyle:http://home.earthlink.net/~clanl/px27.jpg
Red Malabar spinach likes to climb 
instead:http://home.earthlink.net/~clanl/px28.jpg
Vietnamese coriander, watercress, and a little red Malabar 
spinach:http://home.earthlink.net/~clanl/px29.jpgVietnamese coriander, 
mostly, which is so aggressive, along with a little 
celeriac:http://home.earthlink.net/~clanl/px30.jpg
Ipomoea aquatica, acquired despite 
kooks:http://home.earthlink.net/~clanl/px31.jpgCeleriac and 
purslane:http://home.earthlink.net/~clanl/px32.jpg
The Aztecs never had floating gardens.  Instead they were able to control the 
level of water in Lake Texcoco very precisely, so corn could be raised on 
piers made of reeds.  Next year we're building a solid wooden pier, and using 
the same watersprouts from fruit trees, and the same sort of moss on top of 
those.  That should make it possible to grow anything, not just water-loving 
plants.