#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)
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@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.