forecast confirmed

there was nothing extraordinary about yesterday's temperatures...ninety-six degrees ( fahrenheit ) at seven p.m. is not unusual...themperatures hovering around eighty at twenty after four a.m. is not the norm here,,,it usually cools at night and tropical eveings are something of a rarity...so a bit later this moring i rambled over to the portage garden to water and have a look...

and since the population in my bed consists of two distinct classes of plants there is a limted amount to tell...the seventeen potaoto plants begin to look more like shrubbery...

all reaching for sunlight in a bed that receives direct sun most of the day...some energy use there that i could have hoped for them to have applied to tubers...

quite a few of them are investing in blooms as well...i am disinclined to pinch them off ( unlike the garlic here at home ) so, perhaps i will go back a bit later and photograph them in a more open state as compensation.....

the northern peremeter of the bed is inhabited by some sturdy looking maize...i planted them on the north side because i did not want them to shade the spuds..clearly ( at this point anyway ) an unecessary precaution...the spuds are dwarfing them...this should ( hopefully ) change...we will be empirical and wait and see...perhaps some bloom photos later...