zea,spuds, and beans

went to the garden and pulled in another seven pounds six and three eighths ounces of spuds from the half bed i planted which brings the harvest from that up to sixteen pounds and half an ounce to date...there are still a few more plants that are not finished so the total should rise...we will see...

the hopi blue maize there is blooming...

and one plant has produced two ears to date...

this one in a different bed must be pushing eleven or twelve feet in height...

just for scale, i am around six feet tall and i took this photo holding the camera at arm's length over my head...

it has not produced any ears yet, however, in true "three sisters" style, it does have a bean vine using it as a trellis...

the vine is blooming...

and the bees are obligingly paying them visits....

here at home the hopi blue...

is also blooming...

and producing...

not wanting to be left behind the teosinte...

is blooming as well...

and exhibiting silks, if not ears ( yet )...

the jerusalem artichokes are in full bloom ( so it must be august )...

and the concord grapes are ripening ( yet another sign of both august and incipient autumn )...things are moving along.