Ready To Eat! Well it's finally time! Everything that the plant has been working hard at has now come to it's culminative review! We hope it passes your tastebuds approval!
POLLINATION IS UNDERWAY You can smell the corn growing! What an exciting time…the process of pollination is in full swing here at Snyder’s Sweet Corn! Once the plant has stretched out and the tassels are reaching for the sky, the timing is perfect
What beautiful weather we are experiencing and the corn plants LOVE basking in the sun! Have I ever told you how much I enjoy watching corn grow?
This is such an exciting time here on our farm! I love watching these sweet little shoots emerge. Do take note though that the work has only begun as that first little plant is just one of many that has
Corn isn’t just cool…it’s ‘radicle’! This little seed was just a dry, shrivelled kernel in a bag a few short days ago! And today, after being snuggled in the darkness of some really great soil, it has plumped up and started
Pollination is underway!! What an exciting time…the process of pollination is in full swing here at Snyder’s Sweet Corn! Once the plant has stretched out and the tassels are reaching for the sky, the timing is perfect for the cobs to put
Look who’s peeking out of the whorl!!!These hot and humid days are prime growing conditions for our beautiful corn crop! As each plant stretches out, the developed tassel begins to push out of the whorl! Very soon the tassel will
Corn is an a-maize-ing plant! After just 5 weeks, look at this root development and plant mass waiting to stretch out! It’s a super highway of food production! The fibrous sweet corn roots will extend laterally more than half as
‘Save the baby corns!’ We do this every year…but why? Well if the plants stay under the plastic for too long, the sun will bleach the leaves and the young plant will die a very sad death. But why does this matter