Strange Sightings

There have been a few recent "happenings" in the garden that have left us puzzled. The first surprise was earlier this week when I was wandering around checking some of our late plantings of tomatoes and saw what I could only describe as some sort of spongy life form attacking one of the plants. It looked like some weird alien fungus has developed over night around the stalk. Later that day it dried out somewhat and broke apart easily enough and came off. Come to think of it, every place we've used this particular mulch there have been all sorts of crazy mushrooms sprouting overnight after we water. Definitely need to find a new source for our mulch next time. Who knows what else may be lurking... *shiver*

After that one of our corn plants started growing what looked like actual kernels of corn right on its tassel. The corn bed hasn't been growing very well all year and this was just downright weird. Maybe this is just a strange anomaly that happens in nature or some recessive gene coming through. We are keeping a sharp eye out for more creepy things showing up in our yard and keeping good notes for future sightings. Nothing is certain in nature and one can always count on expecting the unexpected. We're certainly never bored these days.