Sweetcorn

10 September 2006

If you have a trundle through the archives of this here blog, you will see that in previous years I’ve gone on and on about my little vegetable patch, proudly displaying its progress and eventual harvests.

I grew veg in my plot this year too, but the harvest was, well, crap. I blame very dry weather, birds, rubbish seed, going away for a fortnight and other things which can’t possibly be my fault.

This year’s crop was meant to be a lot of sweetcorn. Only, either the birds ran off with my seed (see above), it was bad seed (see above) or they needed more water (see above). I ended up with a paltry 3 seedlings, even after I had replanted half the patch with my remaining seed. And then, in the course of my weeding, I managed to dig up one of the seedlings. Because evidently somehow, in the six years since I left school, I’ve managed to mislay an alarming amount of intelligence.

So, two plants it was, which was at least going to make it more difficult for aliens to hide in my crop, thereby allaying that particular self-inflicted fear. I shook their tassles atop the plants, watered them almost mercilessly and in return they grew 2 nice cobs, plus a runt of a cob that’s barely worth mentioning.

Eventually, pulling back the husks and squeezing one of the niblets produced a creamy liquid rather a watery spurt, indicating that they were ready to eat. I left the cobs on the plant until tea was being prepared, giving them very little time to start converting their sugar to starch before Mum threw them into the pan.

They were delicious; definitely something to try again next year.

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dreamdust » Harvest has begun
8th September 2007 @ 9:07 pm

[...] like this. They looked like real sweetcorn! And were much more majestic than my first little crop last year. Thrown into boiling water for a few minutes and then served with a knob of butter they were yummy. [...]