I took this pic of my corn patch today. It's growing very fast, I have pole beans planted in there with the corn, so I'll get two big crops out of this spot. This will be the first year with no chemical fertilizer used at all with the corn, I've added and worked in a lot of composted horse manure and composted leaves this spring. I figure the corn has all the nitrogen it needs as it is.
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Wow that's looking good, Are your pole beans limas or snaps?
Really nice patch, Did you plant them with a push seeder or by hand? The spacing looks perfect to me.
Onions
Okra a yellow Burmese type https://www.southernexposure.com/burmese-okra-4-g-p-131.html on the right and Waltham butternut winter storage squash on the left. 75ft. rows about. We've been picking okra for about ten days now and it should bear until frost. Burmese is a great okra and if other okra is not growing nearby seed saving is easy. Non slimy type.
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We've been growing small, colorful sunflowers for several years now and saving seed. We make no effort to prevent cross pollination and save seed from the flowers we like best and also choose for as much variability as possible. Lots of goldfinch activity, the one in the photo is watching me closely. Lots of bees, too. We get a metalic green bee but I don't know what it is. Seem rather tame. The photos don't show it well but these bees are loaded up with pollen. All photos taken a few minutes ago.
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I believe this is a swallowtail butterfly. Butterflies love the sunflowers.
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Here are some various shots of sunflowers and insects:
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Very good photos! Can I repost these on my facebook page? - I've got friends who do flower and bug photography, they'd like to see these........
Chuck, this is our first year growing corn.... How do you know when its ready to pick?
When those silky tassels on the ears turn dry and dark brown, the corn is getting ripe. Here's a little video with a little more info:
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