this particular corner of the midwest has seen rain on and off the past few days including .65 of an inch in my back yard this morning...
so for ( i believe ) the second week running i felt absolved of the need to water the garden and simply had a look around...
with a couple of exceptions my bed is pretty much where it was last week...none of the remaining spuds are even close to finishing...
the larger maize plants are still cooking away on those ears...
the titled green tomato is...still green and i would wager will remain so...
the alfalfa plants are robust and the zea mays mexicana between them...
is still coming out in ears of its own...the status quo shouldn't be expected to be a universal though...this is not a static bed...so what's changed?
well...the loss of its two peppers over the week before last has, i think, convinced the hungarian hot pepper that there is no profit in trying to produce more seed and has folded up shop for the season...that seems a reasonable decision...
and last weeks ravaged maize plant with the peculiar ear-above-the flower- arrangement need not concern itself with pollination issues...
because something ( i am betting squirrel[s] here ) has ravaged it yet again and made off with the green ear as a prize...garden life is replete with vagaries and dangers...
in the wider garden the beginnings of die back is an index of approaching autumn...
the carolina horse nettle would seem to be ignoring the message...
as it continues to bloom even this late in the season...
even though multiple past blooms have succeeded in fulfilling their destiny and becoming equally multiple fruits...
all around the garden...i had thought that the missing fruit for this particular cluster might have been made off with by some unwitting critter...they are ripening and, although i am unaware of what creature might tolerate the solanine in the fruits, there must be predators who feed on them...
not this one however..i found it in situ where it had fallen from the plant...
and retrieved it before its little ( they are very small seeds ) packets of dna could get up to any mischief...this won't stop the rhizomes and it won't stop the spread of the plants...it is invasive and has learned how to survive the winters at the south end of the inland sea...settling in for an open ended stay.
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