Corn......it is a strange vegetable. It grows on cobs but most often you find it in the grocery store off the cob, in a can or a frozen bag. We grew corn last year and it was fabulous I wish we had grown more. This year our corn got off to a poor start. The weather was cold and wet....just not good growing weather for corn. Well it finally got more than a foot tall and kept growing. It did get ears but they didn't look like they were ever going to be very big. A couple of weeks ago Jeff even picked one and shucked it and it looked terrible. He gave it to the "girls"....they wouldn't even eat it. Yesterday I went out to the Garden and thought I should pick that corn because it was going to rain and it would be ruined for sure. It looked beautiful!
Determined Corn!
Success an ear of Corn!
I picked all the corn yesterday. I had to schuck it all because there were little bugs all over the leaves, grossed me out! I think it was because they were so wet. But inside I found these beatiful ears of corn. I was so excited and could not wait for Jeff to get home from his trip to Las Vegas and have dinner. I cooked it my usual way, sat down and was ready to enjoy our home grown corn! I took a bite and there was absolutely no taste.......I asked Jeff what his tasted like and he said nothing......So I guess the saying "Looks are only Skin Deep" even pertains to Corn!
Bummer. Not a great year for a garden. However,I finally am getting lots of tomatoes and I might get Brussels sprouts even though the deer got in the garden and ate the leaves off the plants
ReplyDeleteWe are getting a few red tomatoes....there are lots of green ones but don't think they are going to make it to red!
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