a few more signs of autumn approaching

even at a distance the corn row in bed six at the community garden tells me the season is beginning to wind down...

i will be bringing ears of flint corn home next trip out...

tomatoes are ripening...i pulled in almost a full five gallon bucket today and it looks like there will be a couple more before they're done...

spuds i planted in may are dying back...

today i harvested some german butterballs and a few elmer's blues...

oddly enough ( or, perhaps, just naturally ) the bean vines that had done little have begun to bloom and produce in the past two weeks...there may be significant beans from the second sister yet which would be pleasing...

for those of you not attuned to teosinte it may be time to hit the "next blog" button at the top because one of the surest signs of oncoming fall in my yard is a proliferation of teosinte ears and that is where we are...

the stands of zea are robust...i am hoping for as good a seed season as last year was...hoping for better would be greedy.