the garden is looking green this morning, however the beds were a bit dry so irrigation was called for...which i did thoroughly and then went to have a look around...
the asparagus looks like it should in july...tall and "ferny"...
it has produced another spear ( i have not taken a census yet...last year i believe there were fifty-five...a count next time out ) and, if it all goes well, there will be some seed again this season which is pleasing...
around back the cherry tomatoes are coming along well...and there is a lone remaining potato bloom...the way the blooms have been falling off the plants i am inclined to think there is as little chance of potato fruits here as there is in my yard...not so pleasing...this is gardening however...we are not in control no matter how much we deceive ourselves...
down the row the maize is pushing its season along...tall and flowering...
the one on the east end of the bed is still the tallest ( pardon me for throwing myself in here as much as i have of late..i find little enough out there to portray scale with..as the season fades so too will the ego )..it is farthest along...has the largest "bloom"...
it also has the most advanced ears...we discussed "catastrophic sexual mutation" yesterday...the maize will proceed to demonstrate...( or, you could speed things up and have a shufti at the sweetcorn at the supermarket )
those are not the only emergent ears out there..just the most advanced...
pollinators are hard at work in the zucchini blooms...squash impends...
presumably they have been at the cucumber blooms as well since there are a number of finished cukes hanging about...
and, finally, a close up of the resilient, invasive, drought resistant, horse resistant, probably herbicide resistant carolina horse nettle as a reminder that we really are not in control and a hint that we just might be doing things here and there without any sort of full knowledge of possible consequences.
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