Tom.
My plant is in a partial shade in the house and near the front door facing west. I do prune out some yellow leaves and top it at 6 to 7 feet. Most of the time the leaves will take a weeping form.
Tony
Tony, healthy plant and very beautiful flowers . Mine starts to open around 9:00 at night last till about midnight or so
Nice edamame. I grow they as well but not nearly as filled as yours. They are delicious and very nutritious eaten as snack.
Tony,
Maybe that was part of my problem? I pruned it back every year so I may have pruned of the flower buds? Besides, I’ve never given it any fertilizer, another bummer!
Tom
Just in case other people didn’t know, I’m reporting that giant grasshoppers eat tomatoes. I don’t mean the leaves. They eat huge areas out of the tastiest tomatoes.
At the moment, one of the things I appear to be growing is an assortment of grasshoppers. I’ve found at least 5 different types from teeny tiny ones with red orange heads up to others 4"-5" long. There are more little ones than big ones, but the big ones do the most damage the fastest. They are big like the ones that come from bio supply houses for dissecting.
It might give me satisfaction to crunch Japanese beetles between my fingers, but these are too big for me to finger crunch. Makes it a challenge to get them where I can foot crunch them. 
Tony and Tom, I guess your wives are all Asian as I plant the sample melon/gourd.
Chickens love to crunch any grasshoppers 
I dug up potatoes for dinner tonight. Nothing fancy, just regular Kennebecs. Other than the snails that I crunched, there were things under the straw and in the soil that I was happy to see. There was an abundance of mycorrhiza “puffball” mushrooms that hadn’t yet grown up through the straw. There were lots of very large earthworms.
I was also happy to see that the potatoes have started sprouting eyes. The vines die off by early summer here, and I leave the unused potatoes in the ground and harvest what I need. The potatoes grow nice and large, but not with the abundance that cooler planting areas get in their longer season. However, they resprout in the fall. Seeing those eyes growing means that the soil in that protected area has cooled enough to give them a decently long fall growing season. Fall potatoes that are missed during harvest will resprout in the spring since my ground doesn’t freeze. Potato beds can become accidentally perpetual in this environment.
Very nice!
Gorgeous corn! It looks better than any you’ll ever see sold in stores in the fall.
Oh my gosh, those are so beautiful. Very pretty!!
Beautiful colors! Ready for Fall.
Thanks. These are not indian corns for decoration, My kids really love the texture of these corns, it sale $1 a piece in specialty stores!
I grew some edible red corn a few years ago. The raccoons got all of it except for one ear that they missed. I remember it had a very good unique flavor different from typical white and yellow corn.
I was looking at wiki about all varieties of corns, really learnt a lot. I always buy the frozen wax corn on the cob from Asian super market, a dollar a piece , boy , I think it is very expensive for corn. This is my first year growing this type, I will grow more next year. BTW racoon did visited my back yard as usually, knocked down one ear of corn, this is it. I am lucky.
Annie, you must tell us the name of the seed corn you planted and where you purchased it. You wouldn’t keep something so nice a secret, would you?
I was given handful of seeds by a friend from China. I used about half of it this spring. If you want to try I can share some with you so you can grow and save the seeds as you wish. Corn seeds germination rate usually not too bad as long as using within 2 years. But the qty will be small though. There are total of 4-5 colors, red, yellow, purple, black, and multicolor.
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I grew some corn like that when I was a kid. One type was deep red kernels and had purple stalks , leaves and shucks. I kept the seeds and replanted but I grew the two kinds too close together and lost almost all of the purple color from the stalks and shucks from the following generations. Does any one know of a corn like that?
seedsaver carries some corns look like that, but I think they are dent corn, not wax corn.