the maize in this patch in my back yard is around five feet tall...
this one, a few yards away, is taller than i am ( and has some spiffy support roots going on )...
and the maize in my bed at the community garden is all seven feet or better and in full bloom...
out in the bean field it's a different story...
the volunteer corn there hasn't topped three feet...even though some of it is flowering...
the stalks are clustered together in a bunch on all the volunteer stands...
as if they grew from a clump of kernels left from an ear the combine and the gleaners missed ( like this one from two years ago...before the herbicide got it )...still...last season i put a tape rule on stalks two inches apart that grew to full size and produced...corn plants been engineered to stand being in close proximity to one another unlike buffalo bird woman's heirloom maize...admittedly hybrid seed is mule like in that reproduction for it is not a simple thing...a rarity...and monsanto swears on all that's unholy there is no such thing as a suicide gene in their modified corn ( even though saving it to grow another crop to see is illegal...there is a growers' agreement to adhere to )...so..we will wait around and compare productivity in the field, yard, and community garden ( production the squirrels don't get anyway ) and see what does better...
and the beans you say? "how are the tariffed, twelve billion of my hard earned tax dollar industrial soybeans doing?"..fine...blooming away in acres of fields...
i stuck a camera down under all that green foliage to take a blind photo of what is going on down there...i believe i see pods in this photo...and if they aren't there will be with all those blooms.
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