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Richard Rollinson

we just ended our cornfest 2023. Our total ears of brought to the table from the 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 (lost count)



A wooden harvesting basket containing a dozen ears of sweetcorn ans a dozen red tomatoes.
A wooden harvesting basket containing several ears of sweetcorn. One of the ears is partially husked showing the neat rows of yellow and white kernels.
Wooden harvesting basket with 6 ears of husked sweetcorn showing clean, neat rows of yellow and white kernels.
Close view of multiple corn stalks growing in a garden. In center of view is a large ear of corn just ready to pick.
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levampyre

@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?

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Richard Rollinson

@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)

Richard Rollinson

@levampyre This was done daily over a six week period. That's why I stagger the planting. 😀

Aug 26, 2023, 03:50 PM·Public
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levampyre

@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.

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