i hung out a new bee house in the canopy of trees at the end of the patio with hopes of providing more habitat for pollinators...we will see if there are any takers...
over in the maize patch, this bean has begun to vine and has chosen a cornstalk to use as a trellis...
and this heirloom maize ( with attendant bean plant ) has begun to tiller...
and while we are still in zea mode, the potted teosinte continues to produce multiple ears and, we hope, viable seed...
the ramps continue to work on blooming while their allium cousins have burst out complete with small pollinators...
the mulberries are ripening...
and, for now at least, the catalpa tree is full of grapes...
while we are talking fruit, the wild strawberry season is long since over...however the plants are still here and with little else to do in the last month and a half the patch in the east bed...
has become this...
while the plants in the south bed, despite relentless shade from the jerusalem artichokes, have expanded down the side of the bed with stolons plotting some daughters' escapes
the winter rye is ripening quickly...individual grains of rye are breaking through the husks ( rye is infinitely easier to thresh and winnow than wheat...just a data point )...that will be coming in soon...
the dwarf syrian wheat is pretty well along the maturing path as well...it will be the first of the wheat to be brought in...
when i went to check on the black tip wheat ( which seems to be next in line for harvest ) i found a visitor who stopped to pose for a few minutes...
and finally ( finally! ) the bogota market mashua is showing signs of actually starting to grow rather than spending its season idling along producing the odd leaf...
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