2022 09 16 - Still picking

Picture: Corn from today.

We have been mostly gone for the last month so the squirrels had gotten most of the corn. They leave it alone in the early summer, but once they get a taste of it then they are back more or less every day with a trail of husks from the garden to the tree.

In past years when I planted a variety of things in my garden, I only have a few plantings of corn and have the last one get ready about Labor Day. It has frozen by then some years and I'm out of space in the garden.

If I open any of the corn to look at it the critters will get into that year for sure so I have been mostly picking the cobbs where the silks are already dry. Before today. With all of the done, over done corn taken by the squirrels I had to go for the younger stuff. It was still past prime. It is also past prime because of how late in the season it is and likely how cool the nights are getting.

Over all it has been a good year for corn, glad I planted lots of it. Most of the 1st four plantings never did get ripe. We were gone and it never rained for about a month. The later plantings were in a different area and the timing was such that the lack of rain did not hurt it as bad.

I did have many meals of corn, just corn and butter. Day after day, twice a day. As much as there was. In past years I could only eat a few ears a meal and it had to be with a sandwich, with other food. This year I was eating a dozen ears a meal and it didn't bother my system at all.