this year, we planted corn for the very first time. it is so very easy to grow, yet so dramatic!
watching the stalks reach for the sky in all their green glory has been a summer treat. above is a half grown photo from early in july.
i have been wanting to grow corn for awhile but was put off a bit when our next door neighbor shared with me her corn tale of woe....
lori was excited to finally have a garden and grow her own corn. her husband and teenage boys were looking forward to it too. lori planned and planted and waited and watched. finally, at the end of the summer the corn was ripe and ready so lori organized a barbeque with friends to share their bounty. the morning of the barbeque, lori went outside to gather her harvest and was shocked then heartbroken to find the entire corn crop shredded, stripped, broken and bare. raccoons! raccoons had also been planning, scheming, waiting and watching and knew as well just when the corn was at its best. sad.
so, these past couple of weeks i've put roxy on guard protecting our nearly ready corn crop.
(actually, here she is protecting us from a wild rabbit, she does this during her off time)
success! yesterday, i harvested, gabi shucked, paul barbecued and we all ate homegrown corn on the cob!
thanks roxy!
have a lovely weekend.
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