a zea day ( with a few asides )

eight days ago i brought the heirloom maize seeds i did not plant in the campus garden home and put them in the back yard...they have begun to pop up and i would personally have been content if all nine i planted emerged and had a season...however...the call has gone out for cornstalks for autumnal aesthetics ( read halloween decorations )...so...

i dug up a few plots around the yard...

and planted fourteen more of the hybrid and eight more of the heirloom seeds...the rest i am holding onto for my trip out to campus in case there are casualties among the seedlings there...if so they will be replaced, and if not...more space to find out back...

in other zea news , the potted teosinte continues to produce ears and silks...

while the in-ground teosinte has found the recent advent of summer-like heat conducive to growth...a robust season is underway...

elsewhere, the winter rye has begun to flower...a sure sign that the season is past the half-way mark...we will be harvesting rye soon enough...

and the egyptian walking onions continue to unfurl and develop aerial bulbs...signaling their intention to live up to their name and actually "walk"