Our early corn variety – Sugar Baby – is all picked…it took us a week, a few “buckets” each day during the work week, and then the remainder on Friday and Saturday. Alltogether, this resulted in – we think – about 65 quart bags of frozen corn. Not too bad, even though we lost count and were to tired to go back to the garage, where our extra freezers are, and do a recount. This was the first time we had planted an early variety and we were surprised to find rather large ears of corn on these relatively short, stocky kind of plants. (We had planted 2 lbs of this bi-color variety).
The Silver King corn is almost ripe – we are hoping for some rain to help the kernels fill out, but this is our project for the next weekend. Expecting lots of relatives to comes and help pick and take corn with them 🙂 We planted 5 lbs of this one (not sure what we were thinking).
Also spent time throughout the week to continue tying up bramble canes for next year’s fruit. We are getting some blackberries off this year, although we had tried to cut back the plants a lot this Spring to discourage fruiting and encourage the growth of fruiting canes for next year. Still, managed to make 2 pies and freeze 2 gallons of berries so far. We are irrigating the berries, since the weather has been extremely hot and dry.
Pretty much did the same “maintenance” on the grapes – continued tying up the vines, which are still growing at amazing rates, and continued irrigating.
