drive

i was out at the garden and it begins to take on more aspects of autumn..there is, however a distinct dichotomy as well...

the asparagus has begun to show signs of dying back for the season...

at the same time it is still working on "berries'...

and, even though they were closed in the morning cool, the plants have produced a multiplicity of late blooms in an attempt to create more...

the tomato plant in my bed is clearly dying back from the bottom up...

clearly the top of the plants is clueless about what the bottom is up to...it is relentlessly blooming...

and producing fruit...

it isn't the only tomato plant in the garden pursuing the same late season goals...

the peppers haven't turned into october slackers either...they are blooming...

and they are producing away...the lesson is that reproduction is the imperative in the garden...delivering produce to humans is a very secondary activity even in the utterly artificial environment ( we could start with nature doesn't plant just one variety of plants in a given area and nothing is in rows and move on from there ) of the garden...even that artificiality can't blunt the drive.