sweet corn time

From agrarian — Blog by Mark Hall

August 13, 2009

It’s been a long wait here in Ontario (Canada) for our annual sweet corn bonanza.

Cold, dark “summer” days most of July and early August have held back the golden kernels around here (Tomatoes too).

I don’t grow any myself -- the raccoons always get it first -- although they haven’t attacked the strawberry popcorn I planted this year.

Instead, we have to wait for my neighbour George, whose farm backs on ours, to have his corn ready for market. He tried to time the first ripening for the Civic Holiday Weekend -- the first weekend in August. He gets a lot of business from city people heading along the county road on their way to Collingwood and Wasaga Beach.

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