a rather violent thunderstorm with wind and copious lightening blew through here last night dumping almost an inch of rain in less than an hour and roiling the end of independence day fireworks displays ( although some intrepid souls here defied the rain in search of the ultimate explosive noise )...and having some ( albeit minor ) impact on the yard...
the intermediate wheat grass took a drubbing...
and while most of the maize came through without an issue...
a couple of plants took what can only be described as a mild hit...this is no issue really...they could have been flattened and i could have put them back upright with no impact...their ancestor teosinte insists on falling over if you don't support it to spread its seed as far from the parent plant as possible...maize has inherited the ability to fall over with no real damage...
so i stood the plants back upright and hilled some soil around their bases and they are doing just fine...
incidentally, the teosinte all came through upright...
before we leave the zea family behind there are a couple of items left...paralleling the community garden, this bean plant is vining up a maize plant...it has entrapped a leaf from a neighboring plant which i will probably free so its sharp ( check out one in the field sometime )edge does not damage the vine...
and this one has found a teosinte panat...the beans are not picky about choosing sisters...
beyond the above minor glitches things seem to be moving along...the zucchini continue to bloom...which is a change from the past few season when production has been somewhat lacking...a change of location may have changed the outcome..
the potato blossoms came through as well...there are a number of plants blooming or preparing to..i am hopeful of fruits...
the grapes in the catalpa tree, the hot banana peppers, as well as the kohlrabi were unscathed...and the jerusalem artichokes just shrugged the whole thing off...
and finally (!) a bit of allium morphology...the ramp flower has opened and begun to bloom and its flowers, while far fewer in number, bear a family resemblance to the fully opened onion flowers...one result in the fewer number of blooms is the ramps seeds are gigantic compared with those of the onion...same family...different strategies.
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