Growing Corn

Growing Corn

Friday September 5, 2008

In the winter I love to pull corn out of my freezer. When I was a kid

my mom and my siblings would spend a lot of time gathering and

freezing corn. This year I was delighted to have 8 rows of corn. The

picture above is the final growing stage of growing the corn. It is sad

to say I did not have a good harvest. Most of the corn was small but

it was tasty.

I do buy produce from a local Organic Farm called Silverton Farms.

Over the past 5 years my husband and I have gotten to know the

farmer. Sometime this month I will be getting a bushel of corn

from him. I will freeze this for my family for the winter.

One day I hope to grow corn as a crop, but until that day I will

continue to learn the art of growing vegetables on a small scale.

Below is a picture of a field of corn like the one I used to pick from in

Kansas as a child. We were lucky enough to have relatives who let us

pick as much as we wanted.