fields and yard

we got a couple of tenths of an inch of rain overnight and into this morning which brings the july total in my yard to 2.35"...it has been warm here as well...not unusual for july...

both of which have the dense yellow #2 in the fields growing so quickly you can almost perceive it..

planted only a couple of inches apart...( although you can see here the planter skipped a bit and left about a foot unoccupied towards the right of the photo )...

and thirty-six inch spacing between rows is long gone...if these are more than eighteen inches apart i will be eating my hat with no salt...they are making the fields denser and denser with corn anymore...still...it is illusory...most of the field is bare soil...although there has been an increase in no till planting...particularly in beans hereabouts lately...any way you look at it this a lot of corn...

there's maize ( heirloom flints I in my yard as well...it is on the left here...that is teosinte on the right...

and it has enjoyed fair growth in the summer weather as well...

the maize has flowered and there are ears coming along...

the teosinte is flowering as well however i have not seen any signs of silks just yet...

the jerusalem artichokes are as relentless as ever...however...

a gourd vine has taken serious hold among them...my presumption is that they are of near equal stubbornness and so detente will ensue rather than a struggle...

gourd flowered have been fertilized and gourds are underway...

as are countless zucchini...

the one ramp that bloomed has been fertilized as well...there will be limited seed this season...

there are tomatoes...

and hot banana and jalepeno peppers...

the chinese yam vine is beginning to produce aerial bulbs...

while the ones on the egyptian walking onions are about ready to walk...

the field peas i planted as a cover crop in the grain beds have irrupted...

as the grapes and mulberries move towards fruition...

and the elm tree back by the alley hosts a colony of dryad's saddles...we are in the middle of a season that is booming along robustly ( and we haven't really touched on spuds, berries, and "ferny" asparagus )...verdant july everywhere i look...been reading about drought and crop failures in guatemala...how lucky can i be? and why is that?