an early morning storm replete with lightening, thunder, and wind, has dropped a shade more than half an inch of rain ( so far...it is still noising out there and there is intermittent rainfall ) in my back yard...
so it wasn't much of a surprise to find a tree down across washington street ( which necessitated something of a detour since there were trees down in adams and jeferson streets as well...i mentioned wind didn't i? ) and the alley behind the garden awash in deepish puddles...
a storm out of the southwest was indexed by the slant of the asparagus...
and by the way the maize and the zea mays mexicana blew over...teocintli has an aggravating habit ( when you want it upright to photograph ) of falling over on its own to disperse its seed at a distance from the parent pant and increase the colony's territory...and the falling does the plant no harm..a trait its descendant has acquired so all you need do is stand it back upright...something that has been done here before...
so i did...
the teocintli down at the south end of the bed still has quite a few green seeds with no protective husks which doesn't bode well fro viability...
however it is developing true ears...silks and all... so i am hopeful of a fair harvest of viable seed in a month or so...
the pepper plants has multiple buds and a fully open bloom...
however the pepper it was working on last week would seem to have vanished...
the carolina horse nettle continues to bloom lustily across the garden ( and, probably, beyond by now...it has been two years since i first spotted it...lots of time to migrate into the community )...at home in lake county these days...
it isn't called horse nettle for nothing...those spikes are no joke...be careful when you are shifting leaves around to take photos...they are adorned with nasty thorns all along the bottom of the leaf stem...
back in my yard the jerusalem artichokes bent in the storm...but laughed uproariously when the storm thought they might break...
here a bit more of the maize took a tumble ( there is more here to tumble...it's only natural more would )...
and, like campus, it did not take much to right them...a few leaners in there...we will deal with those when the rain stops...a few shovelfuls of soil should take care of that.
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