Comments on: Stealing the Correct Corn https://catherinefriend.com/stealing-the-correct-corn/ Sat, 10 Sep 2011 12:31:23 +0000 hourly 1 By: Deb https://catherinefriend.com/stealing-the-correct-corn/#comment-1454 Sat, 10 Sep 2011 12:31:23 +0000 /2011/09/stealing-the-correct-corn/#comment-1454 My brother-in-law worked for a farmer when he was a teen. The farmer told him to take some corn home to the family one day. What Jeff didn’t know is that the farmer planted field corn on the outer edge of all the sweet corn–to fool thieves. So Jeff brings home all this corn that the family spends half the day shucking, cooking and freezing, saving enough for that evening’s meal. Sitting down to dinner, anticipating that first bite of delicious sweet corn, they bite into a tough, chewy and flavorless cob. They laugh about it now….

]]> By: twinsetjan https://catherinefriend.com/stealing-the-correct-corn/#comment-1453 Thu, 08 Sep 2011 01:59:19 +0000 /2011/09/stealing-the-correct-corn/#comment-1453 And there’s a difference between field corn and silage corn…the field corn is planted in neat rows and silage corn looks like it was randomly scattered. Though field corn sometimes turns into silage if mother nature intervenes — a strong storm can knock the corn flat and then it’s silage!

Love your blog.

]]> By: MaggieMaeFarm https://catherinefriend.com/stealing-the-correct-corn/#comment-1452 Wed, 07 Sep 2011 15:04:05 +0000 /2011/09/stealing-the-correct-corn/#comment-1452 I always felt that getting cow corn was just punishment for people who steal farmer’s livelihoods… now you’ve let the cat out of the bag! lol

Here in NH there’s more or less no sweet corn left – Irene flattened it! Worse we didn’t get the late season Silver Queen that I’ve been waiting for all summer long. bummer. enjoy what’s left of your corn season!

]]> By: Mama Pea https://catherinefriend.com/stealing-the-correct-corn/#comment-1451 Tue, 06 Sep 2011 23:18:53 +0000 /2011/09/stealing-the-correct-corn/#comment-1451 Certainly no big fields of corn like down by you. But most of us (silly) gardeners keep trying to get some sweet corn for our own eating. How often do we get it to mature? Oh, I’d say ’bout 2 years out of every ten.

]]> By: Catherine https://catherinefriend.com/stealing-the-correct-corn/#comment-1450 Tue, 06 Sep 2011 22:16:43 +0000 /2011/09/stealing-the-correct-corn/#comment-1450 Maite,

Yo hablo espanol un poquito. Su ingles es perfecto. Tristamente, mi espanol NO es perfecto (esta perfecto? Gaack.)

Gracias por su palabras.

(and I hope you’ll post again!)

]]> By: Maite https://catherinefriend.com/stealing-the-correct-corn/#comment-1449 Tue, 06 Sep 2011 21:05:11 +0000 /2011/09/stealing-the-correct-corn/#comment-1449 Catherine, love this blog and all your farm tales. it’s good to learn something new every day. Didn’t post before because I’m shy because of my english. Hope you and everyone can understand.
Greetings from Spain.
Maite

]]> By: Catherine https://catherinefriend.com/stealing-the-correct-corn/#comment-1448 Tue, 06 Sep 2011 20:53:14 +0000 /2011/09/stealing-the-correct-corn/#comment-1448 Mama Pea…is there even any corn up there? 🙂

]]> By: Mama Pea https://catherinefriend.com/stealing-the-correct-corn/#comment-1447 Tue, 06 Sep 2011 17:16:26 +0000 /2011/09/stealing-the-correct-corn/#comment-1447 Well, you learn something new every day!! (About the tassels on the corn, I mean.) You are such a font of knowledge. Your picture to illustrate the point was excellent. Wonder when I’ll next be riding in farming country with someone in the car I can bedazzle with this new- found knowledge?

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