part beans, part other stuff

the poke weed in the berm of the bean field beside the supermarket is coming along nicely ( the ones in my yard as well )..you can make a vegetable dye from the berries and the leaves are edible ( poke salad ) even if it is considered famine food " by many and plebeian by almost all...still it has a place in this blog as i work to redefine "weed" for myself if no one else...there's quite a few plants other than beans down the rows as well..in fact it is sometimes difficult to discern the rows at all...they are there...so is at least one maple sapling ( fifth photo ) and something that resembles silphium but needs better identification before i call it that..and i did find beans...with tiny blooms ( seventh photo ) and pods beginning to sprout off the stems..so there will be a bean harvest of sorts...one wonders how the machinery will react to all the guests..it would be interesting to watch...i doubt the timing will pander to my schedule however.