corn sweat

it has been warm here again and i surmised the maize on campus probably needed some water so after a short shift at work i headed out to campus on my way home...

and sure enough the stomata on the underside of the maize leaves had opened to evaporate water to keep the leaves from cooking causing the leaves to curl up along their length...corn sweat...

this is the plant i rock mulched my last trip out and its leaves are relatively smooth...

particularly when you compare them to those of its neighbor immediately to the south...

so i stood it upright...rock mulched it as well...and soaked the entire bed with the garden hose...i will be expanding the rock mulch to cover at least that row of plants...i may do them all despite the tediousnes of cleaning up the mulch in the autumn ( there is no telling when the bureaucrats may decide to move me so the bed is mandated to be cleared at the end of the season )...

in other garden news, the asparagus is still upright...

the einkorn has topped out...

more ears of grain have appeared and they are flowering...

while the alfalfa, in full bloom and still intent on escaping, is full of bees...which is why it's there...more as it comes up.