One of the farm stands around here is selling corn for $5 per dozen. I think you got your money's worth!
I remember .50 a dozen. To be fair, the local market is selling them for $3.99, (special) and they are usually pretty fresh, if you pick them up Friday night or Saturday morning. I guess I will have to put some corn in again next year--I usually don't because I used the raised beds.
We have local grocers who will sell local corn from $2 to $4 doz. Much more at the roadside and farmer's markets. Never got old corn at the roadside and farmer's market. At the store it is usually fresh, but I have had my share of corn I tossed into the trash because it wasn't fresh, or too mature. I don't mind canned corn at all. At least I can count on that being good. I tried growing it several times. Everytime some critters ate it before it was ripe.
Okay, Corn here is (are you ready?) 3 for $2.00. that's on sale. This corn would have come from California or maybe the Vancouver, BC area. Definitely not fresh picked!! My latest refrain - "when I retire" - I am going to get my little grill going and try things like grilled corn, steak etc. Looking forward to the results.
WoW. That's the price we have when corn is out of season. Must be charging for shipping! Grilled corn is wonderful, you don't even have to husk it. Everything peels right off, and the taste...
Well the wife went out to her uncle's house today and picked half a pickup bed full (1/2 ton 6.5' bed). I have no idea how many ears, but 500 would not surprise me a bit. She and her sisters are going to blanch it, de-cob it, bag it, and freeze it all tomorrow. My second planting is about a week away and I still have 20 or 30 ears in my fridge from the first planting. Anyone need any corn? I might have a few ears to spare.
Question for you green thumbers here. I've got a little raised bed garden that usually just sort of becomes a deer baiting station, but this year they've stayed away for some reason. As a result, I've actually got some stuff that is closing in on maturity. I planted radishes (only took a month or so for them to be ready. They were awesome), bush beans (growing well but no beans yet), a row of beets (looks like at least a few of them are getting close to being actual beets) and lettuce. My question is, how to harvest the lettuce. It's called oak leaf lettuce and it's a pretty good clump at this point. Should I just walk out with a pair of scissors and snip what I need or pull the whole thing and eat lettuce like a mad man before it goes bad??
Unless you get a heat spell that will turn it bitter tasting, just snap off the outer leaves, leaving the center ones. Then it will be cut and come again.
Got it. Thanks you guys. We are in sort of a heat wave right now so maybe I should hold off till it cools off a bit? I didn't know the temp would affect the taste. Glad I asked.
Hmm. Not sure about your climate, but where I am, once the heat hits, lettuce is toast. But it stays hot once it gets going here. Try a taste, and if it isn't bitter, pull off as much as you can. If the weather breaks, taste again, if the new stuff is bitter, I would say compost it.
I've got a horrible green thumb, but year 2 in the garden so I'm learning. Year 1 taught me when the lettuce reaches 4' high, you don't have incredible gardening powers.... you have bolted lettuce! It is nasty. Lettuce (and I believe the majority of leafy vegetables) are best as "cool" crops, good for planting in early spring and late summer.
Another reason I rarely grow lettuce--we hardly ever get a spring around here, and autumn can be 80 degrees at times.
I've had some red lettuce that did well in the hottest part of Summer. I have no idea exactly what kind it is though because it came in a mix seed pack.
Getting lots from the garden Even getting some ripe tomatoes (bloody butcher) grown outdoors. Starting to taper off on the brocc , but lots of G-beans , zucs, beets, carrots .... '
