Corn?

pulsarnc

Does anyone else here put up sweet corn ? We processed 25 dozen ears today and had 34 quarts of corn to put in the freezer . Lot of work but worth it . Out of it all we had less than 6 ears that was substandard and had to be thrown out and only one ear with worm damage.

Junkballer

Corn was the worst producer in our garden this year due to 2 storms knocking it down but we were still able to put up 500 ears, our 2 daughters put up 250 each for their respective families, 1,000 ears total in one days work (6 people working) not counting the time pulling it. After all the labor, materials involved and cleaning up the left behind mess we decided this is it for corn. It won't taste the same but we've all decided we can live with canned corn

Brookwood

IMO, the best way to eat corn is fresh on the cob, cooked tender dripping with butter, lightly salted.

Instead of growing it myself, I buy just enough each week during the growing season at our local farmers market. I only eat corn this way and only during its season here.

jwb267

I don't raise corn. I am the only one who eats it, so I buy it from our local farmer . I eat some fresh and freeze some with the husk on for winter use

Mobuck

Sweet corn is still 2-3 weeks out in this area due to wet weather preventing early planting and slowing initial growth. The place on the Missouri river bottoms where I can usually get corn by the pickup load was completely washed away by the flooding there so nothing is growing.

WearyTraveler

Brookwood wrote:

IMO, the best way to eat corn is fresh on the cob, cooked tender dripping with butter, lightly salted.

Nope! Best way is right off the stalk while standing in the garden. Sweeter than sugar...

MIKE WISKEY

CORN??!!, mine ain't even knee high yet (we live in the great 'white' north). best is roasted in the husk, then dipped in butter. roast 2 or 3 times what you can eat and then cut the kernals remaining ears, add the left over butter and freeze for winter.

bustedknee

WearyTraveler wrote:

Nope! Best way is right off the stalk while standing in the garden. Sweeter than sugar...
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Agreed.
When I was a kid, groundhog hunting, I would treat myself to lunch by cutting through a cornfield.
Dessert came from an apple orchard.

Sam06

I cannot believe your corn is already picked! I am N of Raleigh and my corn is only chest high. I have been getting tomatoes, squash, zuccini and cherry tomatoes for about a 2 weeks but I don't expect my corn the be ready until late July.

When did you plant?

spasmcreek

used to raise a small patch for us and sell some but aside from many years of field corn, for three years i raised popcorn....Ames large white theater grade...one year i harvested 240,000 pounds of it .....quit because of my issues with the first option sales contracts offered at the time.....

Junkballer

spasmcreek wrote:

one year i harvested 240,000 pounds of it .

4,285 bushels of popcorn that makes for a lot of small kernels and a lot of popping

spasmcreek

always figured that if i could not sell it i could always EAT it.......

pulsarnc

Sam06 , we bought it from the coach at my wife?s school. His extended family are large scale farmers in my area . They do about twenty to twenty five acres of irrigated sweet corn every year . Crops here 50 miles south of Raleigh are generally 2 to 3 weeks ahead of you guys .

Sam06

pulsarnc wrote:

Sam06 , we bought it from the coach at my wife?s school. His extended family are large scale farmers in my area . They do about twenty to twenty five acres of irrigated sweet corn every year . Crops here 50 miles south of Raleigh are generally 2 to 3 weeks ahead of you guys .

Yep when I lived in Fayettnam I could plant in early April now I have to wait almost to May.

Junkballer

GreatGuns wrote:

When we had the ranch up north in Plains I developed a really nice garden and maintained it for many years. One day I found an old corn seed bag in the barn that was unopened and dated 1966. I thought the graphics on the burlap was amazing, never giving consideration to the contents. A friend suggested I plant the corn seed the following season and see what happens. I did and it was amazing! They were tall, sturdy, brilliant green leaves/husks and the cobs were large early in the season. When we tested some in the field, the sweetness and crunch was nothing like we'd experienced in the past. After harvesting the next day, we also canned 3 dozen quart jars that were gone before the following Spring. To this day I wonder about the heritage of that corn seed and believe it was pre-GMO. Anyone else have similar history?

Jim

Can't imagine the weevils not turning the seed into a dusty powder....store in a barn since 1966 in a burlap bag maintaining it's vigor and surviving temp. swings.

JamesRK

You folks with genuine ?FARMERS?? MARKETS are lucky. The sellers at the farmer?s markets in these parts are prone to lying to me. They buy fruits and vegetables of unknown origin and claim to have personally grown them, and you might not notice the deception until you eat them.

I came up with a test that usually works. I ask the ?farmer? what kind of tomatoes he has. My personal favorite is Marglobe. If the ?farmer? doesn?t know what kind of tomatoes, or corn, he has chances are he didn?t grow them.

I finally gave up on farmers markets. I?ve noticed some improvement in the Mexican produce lately.

I?m more than a little envious of you folks with the real deal corn and tomatoes and other stuff.

pulsarnc

Lucky enough to still live in a rural area among lots of farmers . Still do a bit of gardening myself . Produce , locally grown is easy to come by

Quick&Dead

Corn, along with most veggies, garden things ~ matters not if have it or don't.