Someone has been planting corn (maize) in a couple of fields out among the grape vines. At first the parcels were planted in millet for a year or two, but now it's corn. It's curious because I never see any irrigation going on out there, and I know that corn needs to be watered, except maybe for this year because it's been so wet. A lot of corn is grown down in the river valley, but even there it's regularly irrigated.
It looks like we'll be having some decent weather through the end of this week, so it is time to get back outside and continue the battle. I want to continue working on eliminating the little garden path by pulling up the rock border. And the weeds need some taming in the vegetable garden. I saw at least one red tomato out there, and the green and yellow beans are starting to produce.
It used to be the corn needed only to be knee-high by the 4th of July. We’re so much more demanding these days.
ReplyDeleteSounds like all your vegetation, good and bad, is on the move. Looking forward to pictures of your crops. Will the corn in this field be used for animal food?
ReplyDeleteI always remember the time that you made little corn muffins or fritters or something like that, and brought them to a get-together, and, when you offered one to one of the men, he just kind of laughed and turned them down (because corn is for feeding animals, not people). Ha!
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I've always understood that the French don't eat corn from the cob the way Americans do, so is this silage corn? Maybe that kind doesn't need as much attention or to be as aesthetically perfect.
ReplyDeletemitch, I was talking about Oklahoma corn. ;)
ReplyDeletebettyann, probably, but I don't know.
judy, your memory is better than mine!
emm, they don't generally. You can find sweet cob corn here and there, but the cobs are seldom whole. The ends are cut off for some reason. All the feed corn grown down in the valley is irrigated regularly.
And it looks like it’s climbing clear up to the skyyyyyyyyyyyy.
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