If you feed a bunch of free range chickens an entire crop of heirloom corn, does that make them heirloom, free-range hens? An entire crop of 10 foot tall Shoepeg Corn, infested...Corn ear worms have set up shop and officially taken over. Every ear I gingerly peeled back was crawling with my new nemesis. I of course get the last laugh since as I peeled them, the girls were waiting not so patiently at my feet and they got not only the plump, white, irregularly kerneled cobs but their wriggling occupants as well. Summer. Powdery mildew taking down the zucchini the squash bugs haven't gotten to yet. Blossom end rot on that hard to water, back tomato plant and now...worms. I can't exactly say I've given it my best because I really do practice the plant enough for them and I'll get some too philosophy. It usually works, usually. Luckily, I planted an extra early variety of corn that we were eating shortly after the fourth, that may be the key. Monster pumpkin is ripening nicely, we're going to be rolling in pie. Not exactly the Charentais Melon I thought it was but that's the risk you run letting kids help plant seedlings. Kids. Their garden is down to some scraggly swiss chard that distracts the chickens momentarily before they bee-line my tomatoes. We did manage to harvest a colander full of red potatoes from it, not bad for planting some sprouting spuds from the store, the seed potatoes I planted in the main plot better rock or it's off to Albertson's again next year. Winter seeds purchased, just passing the time now waiting for some cooler weather. Peas, lettuce, carrots, beets, spinach and broccoli will hopefully fair better than the corn, cold weather gardens only fear frost. Earworms now fear poultry.
Thursday, August 20, 2009
If you feed a bunch of free range chickens an entire crop of heirloom corn, does that make them heirloom, free-range hens? An entire crop of 10 foot tall Shoepeg Corn, infested...Corn ear worms have set up shop and officially taken over. Every ear I gingerly peeled back was crawling with my new nemesis. I of course get the last laugh since as I peeled them, the girls were waiting not so patiently at my feet and they got not only the plump, white, irregularly kerneled cobs but their wriggling occupants as well. Summer. Powdery mildew taking down the zucchini the squash bugs haven't gotten to yet. Blossom end rot on that hard to water, back tomato plant and now...worms. I can't exactly say I've given it my best because I really do practice the plant enough for them and I'll get some too philosophy. It usually works, usually. Luckily, I planted an extra early variety of corn that we were eating shortly after the fourth, that may be the key. Monster pumpkin is ripening nicely, we're going to be rolling in pie. Not exactly the Charentais Melon I thought it was but that's the risk you run letting kids help plant seedlings. Kids. Their garden is down to some scraggly swiss chard that distracts the chickens momentarily before they bee-line my tomatoes. We did manage to harvest a colander full of red potatoes from it, not bad for planting some sprouting spuds from the store, the seed potatoes I planted in the main plot better rock or it's off to Albertson's again next year. Winter seeds purchased, just passing the time now waiting for some cooler weather. Peas, lettuce, carrots, beets, spinach and broccoli will hopefully fair better than the corn, cold weather gardens only fear frost. Earworms now fear poultry.
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