Wednesday, July 18, 2012

My Husband is Corny!


My husband picked a bunch of sweet corn yesterday.

This is our first year growing it. We live in the city, but have a huge yard. My husband along with the kids planted an 3 Sisters Garden. It's corn, beans and squash. We watered that area pretty good. Our tomatoes didn't do well from the heat this year. I think our red potatoes are ready to be dug up.

There were 3 or 4 ears sitting on the ground, in a row, and the corn was gobbled off. We teased our backyard neighbor of hopping the fence and eating it. Travis thought I ate it. I was like, "Why would I do that? I'd take it down to the kitchen, shuck it, wash it and then eat it." I'm thinking it was a raccoon. Sure enough I was talking to my Dad later (who grew up on a farm) and he said that coons love corn! He said some farmers put up electric fences to keep them away from it. I really doubt we'll want to put up an electric fence.

I gave 5 ears to my oldest sister, parents and a friend. My friend gave me 3 giant zucchini for the corn.

We might end up freezing some of the corn. This is all new to me. I saw a tutorial for freezing corn here

I made zucchini brownies last night. Healthy not, good yes. I wanted to test the recipe before all my company comes in a few weeks. We're having a party with college friends and art friends. People will pitch tents and stay over night. I plan on making zucchini chips as well. The rest I'll cook in olive oil, freeze some, and make a few loaves of bread to freeze as well.

9 comments:

  1. LoL... that is funny that your Husband thought you ate it.

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  2. LOL on the corn! Looks like you got a good amount though!

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  3. Great picture! Our corn did NOT work out this year because of the dryness; we're replanting this week, hoping to get some water to it this time and get a late harvest in. Those zucchini brownies sound yummy! :) Jan (The Nerdy Farm Wife)

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  4. oh look how great your ears of corn look - we tried this last year and only ended up with dwarfs ears!

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  5. Oh coons do love corn. Your bread sounds good but the brownies even if they are not good for you sound wonderful:) B

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  6. Your corn looks so good! Ours didn't make much and the ears were small--they'd gone through hail, wind and then a drought. Poor things. . .

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  7. That's funny about the corn! Zucchini brownies not healthy, you say? I'll never believe it! ;-) Have a great week.

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  8. I can attest to raccoons' love for corn firsthand. I'm glad they left you some!

    Thank you so much for sharing at Rural Thursdays this week. xo

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  9. This all sounds so strange to me. These animals you talk about and we have here only in zoos! The rabbits eat all my plants...flowers as well so this year I've had hubbie's and son in love put up a fence. My daughters cat has come to stay and the rabbitt population seems to be diminishing! It's great though growing your own Vegs isnt it? What a lesson for your kids about the food they eat! Lovely! Joan

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