Corny
Good morning everyone.
Supposed to exceed 92 degrees here today, but we are prepared.
The gardens are on automatic watering, but we gave them an extra shot last night and added some extra mulch.
I had some non GMO corn seed I planted last year left over and I planted it again. It has come up just fine. In fact, E2 harvested some seed corn from last year's crop and I planted a row of it and half has come up. The seeds were fairly poor looking as they came from a somewhat stunted ear, but we wanted to try it anyway. Success!
We still have some seed corn from the original batch and will use it next year again. But we will seriously harvest some from this year's crop and keep going with it.
Kind of like sour dough starter. Ya gotta keep it going.
We just finished the last frozen cob corn in the freezer from last year and this year we planted double the crop.
We're gonna need a bigger boat freezer.
Thread is open. How y'all doing?
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Hey, good morning
.
Always wondered what seed corn is? Different from regular
corn? As a kid, we used to harvest pop corn from a neighbor.
Remember it was better than Jiffy Pop. Lots of salt and butter.
makes just about anything good.
Thanks for the OT!
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As far as I know
any natural corn from a cob (not frankincorn), properly dried and stored, can be replanted yearly forever.
Mexico has something like 4000 different varieties of corn they have been propagating for centuries.
As an aside, I let a Wally Wally sweet onion go to seed two years ago and harvested that seed too. It is also coming up in the garden.
That seed was two years old.
And every year I get tomatoes coming up (called volunteers) in odd places simply because I recycle debris from the tomato patch in the fall.
And I don't wanna talk about the potatoes, them suckers come up everywhere. All as a result of recycling garden debris into my compost pile, which gets turned and processed for 18 months.
This year I've transplanted volunteer potatoes just to see if I can dispense with saving seed potatoes entirely.
And E2 just dug up a Thyme plant that has grown out of control, taking over a 5 ft. corner of the garden. I've sliced it up and removed portions every year for a decade, but it keeps growing back even bigger.
She is going to transplant it to the farm.
Still experimenting. Always experimenting.
It's what gardening is all about.
Thanks for the post.
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Neither Iran nor Venezuela are threatening America.
Cuba is a dead horse, stop beating it.
It is not surprising that we get this as products from Huawei
have been banned.
Can you picture in your mind
Iphones all over America exploding?
Neither Russia nor China is our enemy.
Neither Iran nor Venezuela are threatening America.
Cuba is a dead horse, stop beating it.
There a 2 versions of this. Which is the most accurate?
Or this one.
The one
involving piss.
"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." ---- William Casey, CIA Director, 1981
We need no condescending saviors to lead us from a
banquet hall,
we workers ask not for their favors,
we have been naught, we shall be all.
'Tis the final conflict, let each stand in his place ...
be well and have a good one
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Good morning e1. I suspect that the original mother of all corn
was a weed. Good that you can keep it going, though.
Had blts last night, tomato and lettuce from garden. homemade sourdough bread but had to buy bacon. Too bad you can't bury a slice and get four or five pouts 60 days later.
be well and have a good one
That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --
Yes, the original plant
corn was bred from was called teosinte, a wild grass. Native Americans have been breeding it for 9000 years.
Thanks for stopping by.
Neither Russia nor China is our enemy.
Neither Iran nor Venezuela are threatening America.
Cuba is a dead horse, stop beating it.
Good afternoon, e1!
I am glad your seeds are working as planned. Is the corn sweet and a tad pinkish?
I must know 5 or 6 corn recipes in my head floating around. I also know the deer can and will eat every single ear in the garden in one night.
You make a good point that farming is an ongoing experiment. Nobody knows it all. Everyone can learn new techniques that improve yields. A know it all gardener is typically a horse's ass.
Thanks for the OT, friend!
"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." ---- William Casey, CIA Director, 1981
The seed corn you sent me
was dyed red or pinkish.
But the finished crop was yellow.
It was the sweetest and best corn I've had since childhood back in
Appalachia. I can never eat another frankingcorn again.
Thanks again.........and again and again.
Neither Russia nor China is our enemy.
Neither Iran nor Venezuela are threatening America.
Cuba is a dead horse, stop beating it.
I can get you more
any time you need it. The local feed store still stocks it.
I have grown it year after year, and it does taste like the corn we grew in my youth.
"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." ---- William Casey, CIA Director, 1981