It's Ready!
Our crop is growing right along and it looks Awesome! Pollination is now complete in our first planting! The the plant will now be putting all of its energy into plumping up each kernel into a morsel of deliciousness!
The tassels are in the whorl! They are beginning to peek out from between the mass or healthy, dark green leaves and very soon these plants will stretch out and begin the process of pollination!!
Isn’t corn a’maiz’ing! At this stage in our first planting’s production, it has everything tucked nicely inside the stalk! We have a teenager! It is 1/3 of its way to harvest and we can discern the tassel! Every day
It’s corn pulling day! Let’s go save the baby corns!! This is an extremely important step in our sweetcorn production because if the little shoots are left under the plastic too long they will become sun bleached and whither and die! We are
What a beautiful Sunday! Today we celebrate the accomplishments of our week. We started planting ‘bare ground’ on Tuesday and then Friday night and Saturday we planted our ‘plastic’ ground. This process is slow! The tractor drives a whopping 2 MPH so
What are we up to now?!?! Each season the boys have big thoughts of how we can do things better. Before we implement those ideas across our farm, we use this small plot of ground to try things out. This area
Sweetcorn planting for 2021 has officially begun! While this is the first planting, it will not be the first to be harvested! Bare ground plantings typically take a couple of extra days to mature then those planted into the biodegradable plastic
Today is the day we prepare for since the end of harvest last fall! It’s plastic laying day!!! Somehow though, regardless of how much we prepare, there always seems to be a ‘flaw in the slaw’! This year is no different...however today, many
