holiday eve assessment

it's the day before a holiday and i am off so i took the opportunity to look in on bed six at the community garden...and things seem fine...

the spud corner is robust...

and blooming away...unfortunately no real sign of fruits here either...

the peas have joined in the blooming...

as have the tomatoes...

and even the maize...

the maize is looking well...

a number of the plants have begun to tiller ( they are all heirloom flints...no sweet corn here )...

and all the pole beans i planted at their bases are up...so twelve days into summer we have a season going on...after i finished at the community garden i headed south on swanson road to have a look at the industrial fields...

and out there, even though the season is fairly young, it seems time to spray...what we will be spraying is a question i cannot answer beyond hazarding that it will be herbicide or insecticide...either way i would rather not be present when it gets underway...

you can still find some fallow fields out there...

however two inches less rain this past may compared to last year ( eight instead of ten ) seems to have allowed more fields to be planted in dense yellow #2 than last year...

and there are some large bean fields as well...a bigger local harvest in 2020 perhaps...still...

there are more than a few spots where the late june inundation has washed out he plants...expect native plants to colonize...unless they spray first.