Maize
Maize plants emerging from very peaty ground. Green marks of weeds: bindweed.
Bavois, Vaud canton, Switzerland, May.
"My great-grandfather turned these marshes into fields. This black peat is very fertile, it need little fertiliser, but it is slowly disappearing, due, partly, to agricultural activity."
Dandiel Keller-Gfeller, farmer, La Bernoise, Vaud canton, Switzerland
in " Planting patterns ", p. 75