Corn!

[digitS']

Sweet corn for dinner last night . . ! It was so welcome and good!

Sugar Buns, a first try for that variety! Usually I have Fleet. Fleet plants are so tiny and the ears so short that they are almost embarrassing. Probably could have enjoyed that corn a week ago if I'd really been on the ball back in the springtime but the weather was real dicy during the corn-planting weeks.

I have to look for "good cold soil emergence" and go for EH/SE varieties. I've got a little Casino growing and it should be ready next. That one was a gamble - didn't know if it had "good cold soil emergence," or not!

There are some real standards with Bodacious and still had SugarSnow seed, altho' that white one is getting hard to find. Ambrosia bi-color is a Bodacious sister, as I understand it. By the time Ambrosia comes around, all the corn would have to be bi-color!! That's what I get for growing so many little patches of different color sweet corn !

Steve

 

[ducks4you]

Congrats! I enjoyed eating the sweet corn that I grew this year. I decided to save the ears and try them out to try to plant next year, since about 25 stalks came up kinda late.

 

[lesa]

Sounds good! I have two friends who share lots of corn with me- so it is one of the few things I don't plant. The year I did, the raccoons really enjoyed it though. All of it!!! Enjoy!

 

[digitS']

I am afraid a marmot enjoyed some of these.

For those unfamiliar with the beasts, marmots live at 6,000 feet elevation in Colorado and at sea level in Alaska. At 2,000 feet here, my garden is sometimes on their line of exploitation .

A groundhog is a Marmota monax and weighs 4 to 6 pounds. A hoary marmot (Marmota caligata) weighs around 20 pounds.

This one showed up in the rock pile beside the big veggie garden (home of the corn). He or she was seen sunbathing for a few days but has disappeared and may have moved closer to the river .

One neighbor wants it gone, gone, gone. The last marmot in the rock pile was attacked by his dachshund - result, Mattie the dachshund got an unscheduled trip to the animal hospital. The neighbor has a new 22 that he is sighting in.

Raccoons are around but it seems that they are mostly interested in over-ripe corn. We just cannot leave it on the stalks.

Sweet corn, ripe tomatoes, cucumbers . . . ! Soon - melons! It is the bestest time of the year!

Steve

 

[ducks4you]

Sounds like you need a decent sized guard dog!!