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#today we just ended our cornfest 2023. Our total ears of #sweetcorn brought to the table from the #garden this season was 197. This is not bad but our third planting ended up a little disappointing because I did not manage to feed the last row of corn enough for a variety of reasons, but lesson is learned for next year! (If I count the 4 ears the squirrels stole we grew 201 ears) Oh, yes, we also have several tons of #tomatoes (lost count)
#gardening
#Allotment
#growden
#NewEngland
@richrollgardener oh! I didn't realize you could do multiple plantings of corn! I'm in Central MA.
@lj Here's what it looked like in mid-June. Each row was planted 2 weeks after the one on its left, etc. Each "hill" has 5 plants. Each row has 32 "hills".
@richrollgardener nice! We'll have to try that next year!
@richrollgardener How do you preserve those? Do you let them dry and make meal from them or popcorn? Or do you cook them in a glass or freeze to eat as a vegetable in your salad?
@levampyre Sweetcorn is not for preserving; it is meant to be eaten IMMEDIATELY upon picking. Pure luxury! (See my many earlier post on this subject)
@richrollgardener But how do you eat 197 corns right away?
@levampyre This was done daily over a six week period. That's why I stagger the planting. 
@richrollgardener It's still an impressive amount of corn to eat within 6 weeks. But sequential planting is a nice idea in general. We do this with almost everything, but the plants that need to stay indoors until the last frost day in mid may. We usually start our corn only in May.
@levampyre @richrollgardener My family freezes sweetcorn. Cook the ears as usual, then cut off from the cob when it’s cool enough to handle. Freeze in quart bags on sheet pans so they lay flat and are stackable later. Not quite as good as fresh from the field, but worlds better than a bag from the store
(I just wish I had an effective freezer container that didn’t involve single use plastics)
#freezing #preserving
@belehaa @levampyre @richrollgardener if you spread the kernels out on a sheet pan and freeze them, you can store the frozen corn in glass canning jars and just shake out what you want to cook.
@lj @levampyre @richrollgardener That’s worth trying 
@belehaa @lj @richrollgardener There are also reusable silicone zip lock bags. You can put them in the dish washer. I use them for peas, berries, herb ice cubes and cubes of frozen vegetable broth. I have an extra shelf in my freezer for freezing peas and berries in a flat, spread out fashion, so they don't clump together.