a couple of communities

it's a cool morning for nearing the end of july at the tip of the inland sea...

however the soil at the campus garden said it was time to water despite the cool...

so i did...

over in my bed results are mixed... ( anything new in that in gardening terms? not for me. )...

the teosinte has recovered from the shock of being uprooted and replanted...

however its eight or so inches is fairly stunted compared to the three footers in my back yard...it has survived...happy is another issue...

the spuds continue to threaten to bloom...

and the ten thousand year old dna in the einkorn wheat is close to finishing another season of reproduction...

the asparagus has put up another new spear...

and, as i believe i surmised earlier, the cow peas have ignored the twine and vined up the asparagus...the dangers of not being present in the garden daily...

they have also begun to bloom...pods soon enough...

while i was nosing around the asparagus i came across something i wish i had seen at home...napping leaf cutters...the girls are present here at least and i am pleased...

bees that fly in cooler tempreratures ( leaf cutters need seventy-five or so degrees fahrenheit ) were working the squash...

and bumblebees were mugging the carolina horse nettle...odd how bees treat ornamental blooms as famine food...i never see them on marigolds before october when everything else is gone...one presumes they would prefer to dumpster dive for stale coca-sola first...

john steuart curry came to the portage garden where my maize is taller than i am today ( some anyway )...and if i did not see any bees here, there were certainly enough flowers to attract them...

maize is self pollinating so there won't be a lot of bees around these...

silks and the attendant ears have timed their emergence to near perfection in terms of flowering...kernels soon enough...

and quinoa flowers are turning to seed...

the row of happy beans has added it share of blooms to the bed...

however, in terms of overall number of blossoms, the spud row has outdone them all...

they have a fairly standardized shape, in terms of size and color though they have produced a solid variety...

unfortunately the signs ( so far ) are that all that blooming will not result in fruits...the blooms are simply falling off the stems...not the way i had hoped this would go...there is still hope bacause there are more blooms on the way...all this energy in flowers and buds does have me wondering about tuber size though...we won't know about that for at least another month.