There Was a Corn Cob On the Ground

Bob Bauer

July 02, 2017 (Last Updated: March 06, 2023) | Reading Time: 2 minutes

July 02, 2017

There was a corn cob on the ground in the garden this morning and two broken corn stalks . I guess I've got a raccoon visiting at night. I didn't even know the corn was ripe yet because the plants are still covered in pollen. I found four more ripe ones. Thanks Rocky, I'll put a fresh can of cat food in the trap. The pea pods are missing from one corner of the row but that may have been the possom. They are coming on so strong that we can't keep up..

I remembered that the reason you spread them out on a cookie sheet to freeze them is so that they don't stick together. I've skipped that step and just freeze them in portion size zip lock bags. The lettuce leaf mulch on the green bean row is working great. The beans are long, thin and strait. Without mulch they are short and curled up like monkey feet. The lettuce leaves tend to divert the water away from the stems but that doesn't seem to be a problem..

July 04, 2017

I got my third planting of green beans in. I've started planting six foot rows, because bush beans produce heavily for a short period time, and the ten foot rows were overwhelming us. They are in the same sprinkler zone as the kale and lettuce seeds, which makes watering easier..

This is the time of year when you can plant all of your fall and overwintering crops from seed, and keeping them in watering groups aids you in their daily water requirements. They will get transplanted all over the garden, wherever you find room, but in the heat of the summer it's best to group them..

July 05, 2017

The fifth planting of corn came up and all but one seed germinated. They all came up on the same day, which is an example of what heat can do for your corn seeds. The hot days have allowed the second planting of corn to catch up to the first, so there will be no gap in fresh corn on the cob. Last year each planting caught up to the next, even though they were planted two weeks apart, because the summer kept getting warmer..

The sixth planting will go where the garlic just came out of but I'll have to remove a lot of poppies. Bumblebees love poppies and I love bumblebees so I'll procrastinate awhile..

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