The last of my sweet corn :(
- jimonthewayhome
- Aug 23, 2020
- 2 min read

This doesn't look anything like the huge plate I had last year mid-season. 12+ inch ears.
This last planting, lots of years did not mature. And lots have worms, which hasn't been in problem before this. I'll maybe get 20 ears out of 40 this planting. If the corn is really good I get two years off of each stalk so sometimes I would get close to 80 out of 40 stalks.
Some years I am home on the right days and not on other years.
Time to start cutting down the corn stalks. Some years I leave some growing, drying, for Halloween. Maybe I will leave the eight foot high stuff.
There were still a few raspberries getting ripe, just enough to eat as I walk past. I don't remember them producing all summer before. Wish the black berries would produce something.
I walked past all the peppers today. The orange ones are still green and two had 'fallen' off. One black one is now black and the other one should be in a day or two. Those are the only two on that plant. The yellow ones have gotten taken over by the large tomato plant. I pulled the tomato off of it a little and could not see ANY peppers at all. If there were, I was debating pulling, trimming back, the large tomato plant.
Flowers are still blooming.
Deer are now eating my new beans that are just coming up as well as the older planting.
Potato plants have all dried up so now I need to remember where they were. They were all volunteer so they were not in rows.
I'm getting lazy. I should have looked to see how much it rained and how dry the garden was getting. I could have watered today, but not tomorrow. But I am getting less and less eager to get out in the garden when it is 90+ degrees. OK, I'm not eager when it is 80+.
Maybe tomorrow ?




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