Corny

The garden is starting to wind down a little. One thing that is almost gone is our corn. We have been putting up corn for the past couple weeks. So far we have put up approximately 120 ears of corn, some on the cob and some off the cob. We probably have about 30-50 more ears to pick. I plant a specific kind of sweet corn every year. It is called Silver Queen and it is the one we like the best of all the varieties we have tried. I plant enough to last us until corn time next year and the way we keep it that long is to freeze it. Preserving by freezing seems to work best for corn. The ears that look nice and uniform we freeze on the cob and the uglier ears we cut the corn off of the cob and freeze it that way. The worst part about the whole corn process is cleaning the "hairs" off the corn. It is a very tedious job having to pick the little hairs off each one. I always hated doing this growing up. But I guess it is worth it to have delicious homegrown corn throughout the year. Here are some pics.

This is Margo getting the hair off the ears of corn


Stack o' corn


We have a vacuum sealer that we use for the corn on the cob. It works awesomely.


Here are the tubs of corn off the cob