What Did You Do In The Garden?

[seedcorn]

I can't help but be curious with a name like @seedcorn, what variety of corn it is that you plant!

Aces. Improved Super Sweet variety that is very strong out of ground. It also has a huge window to pick in. I like it when most would say too tough while wife likes it barely out of water stage. Use to be Illini Super sweet but hated how weak it was germinating.

 

[baymule]

Aces. Improved Super Sweet variety that is very strong out of ground. It also has a huge window to pick in. I like it when most would say too tough while wife likes it barely out of water stage. Use to be Illini Super sweet but hated how weak it was germinating.

Is that a hybrid and where do you get the seed? My husband loves sweet corn. Grew some last year, but harvested a little past the five seconds it was at peak perfection. I’ve got Painted Mountain planted (yesterday). Once it’s up and growing I want to plant sweet corn for him.

 

[seedcorn]

Yes, it is a hybrid. Rupp seed. Rupp is a commercial vegetable seed supplier-along with farm seed. They sell seed by the 1,000. They have a call in 800 number with great people to talk to about varieties they carry. Some I would like to try but I don’t need 10,000 seeds. Their catalog can be downloaded.

 

[baymule]

10,000 seed! I can see where that might be a tad too much.

 

[heirloomgal]

Aces. Improved Super Sweet variety that is very strong out of ground. It also has a huge window to pick in. I like it when most would say too tough while wife likes it barely out of water stage. Use to be Illini Super sweet but hated how weak it was germinating.

That's one I've never heard of. Have you ever grown any OP corn you liked?

 

[seedcorn]

That's one I've never heard of. Have you ever grown any OP corn you liked?

No. Not sweet enough for me. They have all tasted like field corn to me. Plus I prefer the hybrid vigor of getting them up and keeping them healthy.
I’ve known people to add sugar to water to cook sweet corn. IF you have to add sugar, just grow field corn, pick it soon after pollination. When my folks started growing Illini SS, they gave some ears to a friend. She complained it was way too sweet-she added sugar to her water.

 

[Dirtmechanic]

I watered the garden and mowed the lawn. Mosquitos are bad out there but not by the house So insects have come and I am putting out the traps for j beetles and mosquito. Some old friends are flowering.

 

[ducks4you]

Planted okra 2-3 seeds per hill 6” apart with idea to kill weakest plants.

Have you had problems with okra growing?

 

[SweetMissDaisy]

And yet, @SweetMissDaisy , there were 2 frosts there last week. And, the WS's forecast has Thursday afternoon at 62°f.

Can we be sure that it won't drop 30 (or 40°!) and that I won't be out there at 4AM in 7 days running the sprinklers to protect a little patch of sweet corn?

Steve

It had BETTER not frost this week..... Tuesday night looks dangerously close.....

 

[Marie2020]

Me too.

I planted a pot of bizy lizzie in memory of my mother, she loved those.