Meanwhile, Will and Eric are setting trusses up on the new barn. How exciting! After all this time, it’s starting to quickly look like a barn! And that gives us hope that maybe we’ll get ‘er under a roof before snow flies.
I’m picking more beans and cukes for more canning tomorrow (or maybe tonight if I’m not too tired), along with watering the orchard and garden, moving sprinklers as needed. Boy, does our sweet corn look GREAT! Huge ears and plenty of them. We can hardly wait for the first meal of homegrown sweet corn. Who needs anything else? (Okay, maybe some butter and salt.)
This spring, we tossed a rotten Halloween pumpkin onto our huge compost pile sitting out by the chicken pen. It sent out a lusty plant. So lusty that we decided it needed friends. So we planted a few plants and seeds of various squash (far from our garden’s pure-seed stock squash so it won’t cross). Holy mackerel — that pile’s covered with squash and pumpkin vines! And it has never gotten watered all summer. The squash in the garden look wonderful too, so I think we’ll have plenty of fat squash to store over winter this year.
Cindy and Pat
Luckily, we live far enough north that we have very few coons; I’ve never even seen one or a track, either. To keep ’em out, fence it (even with chicken wire), then use an electric wire about 8″ from the bottom and another on the top. I’ve done that and KEPT my corn!
Jackie
I have volunteer squash and cukes in heavy mulch. How they came up through it I will never know but they did and they are strong and healthy and I never have to water them!!
Can’t keep the coons out of ours either! Had beautiful corn but now something is carrying it off, stalk and all.
Good luck with the “rogue” pumpkin patch! Seems the volunteers are often the best crops.
How do you keep the coons out of your corn? We have given up on growing it, because not only do the pesky things get all the corn, but they tear up the rest of the garden getting to it.
Love your compost heap!
Sweet corn with butter, grated parmesan cheese and if you like heat some powdered pico de gallo. Nothing better!
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