out and about this morning i stopped by the calumet regional archives for a chat with steve and jimbo and then went out the library doors on thirty-fifth avenue and across to the garden...
the asparagus and its attendant cherry tomatoes are doing well and the spuds continue to produce blooms that are falling off instead of producing fruits as the heat does them in...
my best bet is that the few of the now fifty plus carolina horsenettle plants that are blooming will, if left unmolested, have no such heat related issues...they will bloom and fruit and seed and spread rhizomes all over...the spiny colony is gearing up for a takeover...
the maize is john stuart curry's envy and is doing well...it is taller than my six feet and has developed both some massive support roots and a large flower...no signs of an ears ( or beans ) as yet...
i have bell peppers and tomatoes under production...and even in the corn shade the geraniums are doing fine...
the discovery of the day ( for me anyway ) was a bee on the small stand of alfalfa in my bed...always good to see a bee...
i found this untethered object in one of the beds...it is either an extremely small squash or a grossly over-ripe ( and proportionately bitter ) cucumber...given its size and location ( under some cucumber vines ) i will opt for the latter description...you should feel free to have a look and make your own judgment...
after i finished touring the campus i went out to do some errands and my way home took me past some of the many many acres of tariff threatened soybeans i see planted all over the south end of the inland sea...it was always a staggering number of acres...however there seem to be so many more this year compared to last ( including the field behind the big box stores which was beans last season and, anomalously, is again this...if this whole "trade war" nonsense holds one wonders where the will go...is there enough elevator space> wagering not.
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