zea and solanum

with a day off i found the time to wander by the portage garden to see what was up...and what is up is the maize...

this is an heirloom flint corn, not sweet corn or dense yellow #2, so the plants all have multiple ears irrupting along the stalks...i counted thirty-one ears in an unscientific survey ( in other words i may have missed some...or, given how thing are these days, double counted one ) so we will have maize i believe...

on the other side of the bed one of the remaining potatoes ( there are still half a dozen holdouts refusing to finish ) announced it was done and it produced three healthy tubers which i took home...

rinsed off...

and weighed...this brings me up to the neighborhood of twenty pounds so far from two-thirds of a four by eight foot bed...we may see thirty if we're lucky...we will see.