beans

when out into the rural area east of here to visit one of my daughters and while i was there i had a look at what, this year, is a bean field and was the scene of last october's combine adventure...

the corn stubble clearly indicates a no-til planting...

the ears, with kernels intact, shows that combines are not 100% efficient ( to be expected on presumes, they are anthropogenic ) and the stubble the combine spit out on the field further confirms no-til...

in the past i have found volunteer corn growing virtually directly from the ear...

not so today in the bean field...

or in what is either my daughter's yard encroaching on the field...or the corn colonizing the lawn...either wat we have volunteers from what i am assuming is hybrid corn...if it survives it will of interest to see if it produces...

and, briefly.here at home there is deliberately planted hopi blue maize...

and teosinte coming along.