rain

i have been busy lately...so has the weather...

almost five inches of rain in the past four days has put a damper on many things...however this evening i went and took a look around...

the behomth maize has ended its season...a bit over ten feet tall from its support roots to the flower and one of the plants in the yard produced an identifiable, if not viable, ear of seed...

it is the purple flint i have been planting and i am at a loss to explain why it is expending so much energy in heigth and so little in seed...i'd say it is the shady nature of my yard if the maize in the sunny community garden had not done the same thing...just one anomaly here this evening...

i have collected almost eighteen hundred teosinte seeds from my yard so far...there are still green ears out there...however i have been collecting ( sixteen so far )these out there as well...

teosinte seed that appear to be on rudimentary cobs...something i have not seen in a decade of growing zea mexicana...is this a variation within the ancestor's genes...or has it cross pollenated with its decendants i was growing back there? don't know..so...research...we will try to find an answer...

down in the basement the legumes...

have shown good growth in the past eighteen days and are pretty much dead ringers for cow peas...if this continues they will take over the plant room.