Wildflowers are popping up around town. I think it has something to do with the shortened amount of sunshine. Birds continue to move through the area on their way south. The fall garden is sprouting up real fine. I should be eating radish before too long. I need to fertilize and transplant my lettuce.
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Planting sections of the stem propagates sugar cane plants. In planting cane fields, mature cane stalks are cut into sections and laid horizontally in furrows. Usually only one node on a stem piece develops a new plant because of polarity along the stem piece. When laying them horizontally and covering with soil a new stem plant stem sections grows from the bud, and roots grow from the base of the new stem. The stem branches below ground so several may rise as a clump from the growth of the bud at a node.
Bayou Lafourche is almost back to normal after having been severely disturbed by Hurricane Gustav. There are still fallen trees in the water but the ugly septic stuff that was flowing down past Thibodaux from the north has cleared and the mullet have returned from who knows where. October has come and brought with it some blessed relief from the summer's heat. Birds are migrating south to their wintering grounds. I spotted my first Magnolia Warbler not far from where this picture was taken. Amazing that the tiny bird can fly 500 or 1000 miles from some point in or near Canada and pause here on its way another 500 or 1000 miles into Mexico or beyond.
