non-standard gardening

it is four days past the "average" first frost date here and there is nothing approaching frost temperatures in the ten day forecast...which suits me for now...

because the ears on the northern tepehuan are still stubbornly green...

there are still green ears on the zea mexicana as well...

more are maturing as the days shorten however...

so i brought in a few of the "ripe ears"...

the "ears" are not ears in the sense of the ears it descendant produces, but rather clusters of single rows of seeds in a husk...

this one yielded twenty-seven seeds and the season total is now up to four hundred and thirty-three harvested...if the weather holds i may reach a thousand...we will see.