Can't Wait for the Corn!
If you're like me, the corn can't be ready soon enough. Luckily, the time is soon arriving and I wanted to share with you some pictures and information about our corn crop.
Like most of our crops, we make many succession plantings throughout the spring and summer to ensure that we will have vegetables the entire season. But I must say that corn wins hands down for the number of plantings; approximately 19. Tom starts planting corn around the third week of March and keeps planting every week into July. He has just finished planting the corn for Labor Day weekend (that's always a big planting). The first several plantings of corn are covered with clear plastic that acts like a greenhouse to keep it warm. Otherwise, the cold March and April days and nights would not allow the seed to germinate, and if it did, a frost could kill it. By planting this early under plastic, we are able to have our first corn by late June.
Our first corn started tasseling June 9th, and we usually plan on the first picking around 20 days from tassel - give or take a few days. The pictures show the first planting and notice the ears. The silk on the ears is white now, but when the corn is ready to pull, the silk will be brown. Now the trick is to keep the deer and raccoons out of the corn so that we can enjoy it!!
