8-12-2012 photo appendix

there are still weeds in the cornfield behind walmart and i begin to wonder...that field is inside a town's city limits and might there be a municipal statute about herbicides ( boy! more research ) preventing their use? could be...the second photo is a wider shot of the field and the third is the stand of zea diploperennis on campus just to highlight the relationship...the fourth photo is of a messy ear of industrial corn that has either been peeled back by a critter ( i never touch plants in fields...if for no other reason than chemicals ) or is a defect...and just to be fair the last photo is of a stunted ear of hopi blue on campus...i am not sanguine about its chances and it shows that nothing is perfect...even organic heirlooms.