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August 28
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 Our field is in good shape at this point. We had a little more than one
inch of rain last Friday night. So, we are well ahead of the normal
August rainfall. I don't want to sound ungrateful, but we could have
used some of the rain we had last week in early to mid-July. It
would have been handy at that time, but we'll take it now! That's
going to be the difference between a pretty good harvest and an
average one.
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 The plants in our row
still look good. With the wet soil our plants are set for the next
week or so. Because the plants are well into the R6 stage things are
starting to slow down. The most noticeable things we'll see is the
leaves starting to turn yellow and the pods changing colors.
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 The
pods of our first plant are still very green, but you've probably
noticed they have a brownish color. That's the
"hair" on the pods. The hair color is called tawny, so we
say these pods have a tawny pubescence. Some pods of other varieties
will have a silver pubescence.
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 Our
second plant is loaded with pods. I still can't get over how many
pods this plant has compared to other plants. I'm looking forward to
harvest time to see how well our field yielded. Just between you and
me, things are going to be quite boring for the next couple weeks,
because the plants are slowing down in their development and we
can't see anything happening. The R6 stage lasts for about 18 days,
but it can be shorter or longer for depending on the weather. And
because we've had this rain, I'm guessing it will be longer for our
field. That will help our field to produce a better yield. I'm going
to skip Friday's pictures and we'll look at our field a week from
today.
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