Grandma
9 years ago
Tuesday, August 11, 2009
Sweet
Corn! This past week was full of picking, shucking, debugging and freezing sweet corn. Last Wednesday was also spent canning peaches
and then Wednesday night Carl came out to the garden after work and he and Andrea picked all the sweet corn that was ready.
Unfortunately the black picnic bugs thought our sweet corn was quite good as well and got into several ears. We did manage to salvage most of it and despite the heavy winds that all but knocked it flat earlier in the summer we did manage to get a pretty good crop. Thursday morning Andrea and I shucked all the corn between making sure 3 little boys weren't getting into things they shouldn't.
Then after that long and tedious task we started cutting it off the cob and cooking large batches.
At the time it seemed as if we had lots of corn but as we started freezing it in bags we discovered we really only had enough for about 13 bags of corn. We will know that we need to plant more for next year:) We planted several different varieties and we taste tested each one to see which we liked the best for next year as well. We planted Peaches and Cream-good and sweet but black bugs LOVED it. Serendipity-pretty similar to peaches and cream but easier to cut off cob and longer ears plus black bugs didn't seem to like it quite as much. Honey and Pearl-Wow super sweet maybe even a little too sweet? and Candy Corn-not as sweet and a later developer, black bugs also seemed to enjoy this variety greatly. We think we liked Serendipity the best for overall flavor, corn size and ease to freeze. After lots of cooking, cooling and bagging we were finally done around 7:00 that evening. We decided that shucking the corn is going to be a good job for the boys when they all get a little older:)
and then Wednesday night Carl came out to the garden after work and he and Andrea picked all the sweet corn that was ready.
Unfortunately the black picnic bugs thought our sweet corn was quite good as well and got into several ears. We did manage to salvage most of it and despite the heavy winds that all but knocked it flat earlier in the summer we did manage to get a pretty good crop. Thursday morning Andrea and I shucked all the corn between making sure 3 little boys weren't getting into things they shouldn't.
Then after that long and tedious task we started cutting it off the cob and cooking large batches.
At the time it seemed as if we had lots of corn but as we started freezing it in bags we discovered we really only had enough for about 13 bags of corn. We will know that we need to plant more for next year:) We planted several different varieties and we taste tested each one to see which we liked the best for next year as well. We planted Peaches and Cream-good and sweet but black bugs LOVED it. Serendipity-pretty similar to peaches and cream but easier to cut off cob and longer ears plus black bugs didn't seem to like it quite as much. Honey and Pearl-Wow super sweet maybe even a little too sweet? and Candy Corn-not as sweet and a later developer, black bugs also seemed to enjoy this variety greatly. We think we liked Serendipity the best for overall flavor, corn size and ease to freeze. After lots of cooking, cooling and bagging we were finally done around 7:00 that evening. We decided that shucking the corn is going to be a good job for the boys when they all get a little older:)
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