Down Mulberry Lane

More corn...

Yesterday Dh picked around 300 ears of corn again.  I sold 7 dozen at market, but the rest we blanched and froze.  Dh did most of the work with the corn as I was getting ready for market.   I did help him when it came to cutting it off the cob and bagging it up.  I was home by then.   After eating some for supper, we had 16 more quarts frozen up for the winter. 

We have about 100 small ears of corn left in the garden... I think we'll eat away at those  this week and freeze the rest again, but I don't expect to get much since the ears are so short.  Most of these are the second ear from some stalks. 

Some thoughts about the corn... Next year we will plant them farther apart.  We think the corn was too close as that can make for smaller ears.    We also will plant about 8 rows and then replant 2 weeks later to keep the season going longer, rather than all the corn all at once.   If we plant the same area, we would get about 4 plantings of corn. 

Oh, and the corn we planted... the Organic Sugar Pearl corn was very sweet, sweeter than our bi-colored corn and the germination rate was higher with the sugar pearl than the two varieties of bi-color that we planted.  We also had way less bugs and worms on the sugar pearl.  We were very happy with that variety.  Our customers however shied from the "white corn" and really needed convincing...some we never could convince.  LOL    We even found it good to eat raw... which Paige... the little one was always walking around with an ear if we'd let her.   We're still trying to decide whether we are doing market again next year.  The white corn was very good and yet it wasn't a high seller... so if we do market next year, we probably won't grow it again as it didn't sell very well, but we will probably grow some for "us" at home. 

Warmly, ~Melissa