silks, spuds, visitors

it was not raining when i got to the campus garden...despite an overcast sky...so the first thing i did was water and then took a look around the beds...

the asparagus was upright and the two summer spears are beginning to "fern"...

the hopi turquoise in my bed is doing well...there was some robust japanese bottle grass ( aka foxtail ) in there as well...it is gone now...there's stinging nettle in there too...i had no gloves...pulling it will wait...

all the maize plants have at least one ear in process...which is good...

one of the volunteer spuds had died back...

and it lived up to my expectations by producing a fair handful of elmer's blue fingerlings...which will be lunch...or dinner...or something sometime...

the bed did have some visitors...this harbinger of autumn...and, more pleasingly for me if no one else...

for the first time in the nine or so years i have been affiliated with this garden i saw leaf cutter bees in my garden bed...

of course they were not on the alfalfa i deliberately planted there for their benefit ( they are alfalfa leaf cutter bees...but do not be fooled by the label...back yard experience has shown they have a capacity to utilize other plants with no seeming ill effects )...

no, they were all buzzing about...

the maize flowers....just like out in my back yard