early august on campus

the beds were not parched when i got to the campus garden this morning...however it was near ninety degrees ( fahrenheit ) yesterday and is forecast to be in the eighties today so i watered to be on the safe side of the hydrological necessities...

around the beds i watered squash and tomatoes, cucumbers and collards...

and some prime samples of carolina horse nettle...

the asparagus is doing just fine as evidenced by the emergence of yet another summer spear...

over in my bed things are moving along...

the alfalfa seems to be fully recovered form both the shock of its move and the early season overabundance of water...

the maize is coming along...slowly...the row seems robust and the largest of the plants has reached almost three feet in height...still...even with the warmth it seems stalled compared to last season...much like the industrial fields hereabouts...

at the other end one of the tillers on the zea mays mexicana has begun to flower and there are silks emerging...hoping for seed...

finally, this german butterball was pretty much done...so i popped it up...

it yielded half a dozen tubers that weighed in at fourteen and a half ounces...which brings the average yield per plant up to eleven and five eights ounces...we will see if that continues to climb as the season porogresses.