Fed up with the garden

[WVH1977]

 

[5030]

I adore chemical weeding. Roundup Ultra Max 3.

 

[Dftodd]

We had fresh corn with this evening's supper.

Mature kernels without a hint of over ripe. and JUICEY! Look out, those ears would squirt in your eye!

Hard to beat fresh!

That's been our experience with the fresh corn we've picked up this summer. I bit into an ear of corn and shot my wife who was sitting a few feet away on the couch

 

[MAX-24-Dean]

First year our corn did not polinate in decades, had heavy rain when the tassles came out and washed the pollen away?
Only a quarter of the kernels matured in all of the corn. 4 thirty foot rows. Are biggest fail of the year.

 

[oldballs]

Yep, Mother Nature has more to do with the harvest than we do.......
sorry to hear of that crop failure...........but you'll be back next year.

Cheers,
Mike

 

[Yander]

You must have gotten a late start planting.

We had fresh corn ready middle of july....and staggered about 4 plantings. Ours was done for about end of august. So we ate on it for about 6 weeks.

Yes, I replanted on July 17th (about when you were starting to eat yours). I bush hogged and tilled the first planting because I had a big project at my son's to get done and let my garden go.

 

[goeduck]

Fantastic 2023 finish going on now. Tomato juice running down our cheeks. Potatoes and Squash up next

 

[Yander]

Those maters look they would have great flavor.

 

[goeduck]

They do. I mostly grow "small orange" size varieties that ripen well and have lots of flavor. We struggle up here with getting the big tomatoes to fully ripen, although the last 2 years they have.

 

[Oaktree]

We had fresh corn with this evening's supper.

Mature kernels without a hint of over ripe. and JUICEY! Look out, those ears would squirt in your eye!

Hard to beat fresh!

Our corn was pretty much finished by Labor Day. Not very good this year, dunno if it was just the variety I planted or the weather. Plenty of ears, but it took forever to ripen, and it almost immediately went to over-ripe and tough. Ended up making corn relish out of most of it. If mine isn't "knee high on the 4th of July", chances are we'll run out of summer before it's ripe.

Surprised you're still getting any this late this far north. My garden's finished for the year.

If it wasn't for the migrants (the same groups come every year to harvest and yes they have have 'green cards (work visa's), nothing would get picked as kids today don't want to do manual work (rather play video games and text and smoke dope) than work in the fields and it's hot and physical anyway and not something they want to do,

Was it really any different when we were young? We don't have the big truck farms in this neck of the woods, but even when I was a teen (60s) the orchards depended on itinerate workers to pick. My generation didn't really want that kind of work either, especially when there was less demanding work that paid better.