Dawn, I am happy for you and your corn harvest.

I did not plant any Early Sunglow this year. I sent quite a bit of my seed to Africa and the Sunglow was in the package. I got some corn seed from Africa and planted just a few seeds for a germination test. I think it is some kind of white meal corn. The corn test will be interesting, but I doubt I will be switching to the African corn. I do have some Peaches & Cream planted but it is just now tasseling. The cool wet weather has thrown me behind on everything this year.

I got a game camera for Father's day but the only critters it has snapped a picture of looked like some old woman riding a lawn mower and one that looked like a Hoot owl landing on my trellis.

Larry

Larry, The good thing about meal corn is that coons don't bother it much. The last variety I planted was Peaches and Cream, but since it didn't know it was last and was supposed to mature last, it is tasseling and silking at the same time as the Kandy Korn and Country Gentleman that were planted earlier than it. They all three are in separate areas though.

The game camera sounds cool. I'm pretty sure I don't really want to see what is wandering around our yard and garden at night. It might be scary. As it is, I regularly see paw prints or hoof prints, as well as animal fur and scat, so I already know what is visiting...or at least some of what is visiting. It is not a bad coyote year, so we have tons of rabbits and a few bobcats, lots of deer, but not many armadillos, no coons, and far too many skunks.

For years we had two owls that sat in the pecan tree every night and hunted.One was a big hoot owl and the other a little bitty screech owl. They were together all the time, and I guess we saw them often for 4 or 5 years. The hoot owl disappeared first and then the screech owl. We haven't had many owls lately---the crows follow them around and hound them incessantly, and I think the owls just move on to get away from the crows.

Dawn

Dawn, Which corn is in the corn cage?

We have hoot owls around sometimes. It had been years since I had seen a rabbit in our neighborhood, and a couple of weeks ago I found a small one in my garden. We have seen him 3 times and he is probably still in there. I think there is only one possible place he could have come in, but he may now be too big to get out. I haven't seen any damage, but Al said he saw him under the bean vines so I may find some nibbled beans. I will probably pick the first ones tomorrow.

Every year I have this plant that comes up in my garden and I never know what it is, but I usually pull several of them in the Spring. This year I didn't plant all of my space so I let a few of those plants grow. They are tomatillos. I have lived here 12 years and never planted any, so that has to be some really old seed. I probably pulled a dozen plants before deciding to leave a few. I grew them once in Lone Grove and we didn't like them.

Carol, how big are the fruit on those plants? I have a wild version of tomatillo which comes up all over the garden and yard. I'm sure the fruit is edible. But it is insipid and only he size of a pea, at best. Last year, however, I replanted real tomatillos. They too are volunteering. Fortunately, when seen side by side, the plants are easy to distinguish.

No sweet corn here. I planted Mesquakie Indian Corn and had to replant twice to fill in the holes. I don't know why I had so much of a struggle getting a solid planting.

George
Tahlequah, OK

I don't know if I have this question about corn, but at the end of the school year a benefits dinner was held at my granddaughters school, and they served a corn on the plate that had very deep kernels. I feel sure if was a frozen and came from walmart or sam's, but I would like to grow a corn like that, anyone have any ideas?

Larry