Local Sweet Corn

FINALLY, the farmer just down the road is selling his sweet corn from a hay wagon in his front yard. Crops have been a bit late this year due to an unusually wet Spring. Guess a few ears will find their way onto the dinner table this evening.

FINALLY, the farmer just down the road is selling his sweet corn from a hay wagon in his front yard. Crops have been a bit late this year due to an unusually wet Spring. Guess a few ears will find their way onto the dinner table this evening.

Funny, we've been getting locally grown sweet corn for about 3 weeks now. I guess we didn't get as much precipitation as you did down there, Bill, though we were drowning in June.

Mark Lipton

I had our first local corn last week. Wonderful stuff - with grilled chuck. Heavy April rains delayed planting. We usually get our first around the 4th of July.

Funny how 'Free Association' works. Whenever I get to thinking about sweet corn I think of Old Man Glasscock, who used to sell it from a stand from a back road stand where I grew up; and how one night he shot and killed a car (with a big bore pistol) driven by a drunk who was tearing up his pumpkin patch one night. The deputies arrested him, probably for reckless something or other, but public outcry was so much in his favor that the DA dropped all charges.

We've been getting MA (Hadley) for over a week now. Before that the distributor was getting corn from GA and driving overnight until that came in. Don't know what happened to the corn between GA and MA.

Funny how 'Free Association' works. Whenever I get to thinking about sweet corn I think of Old Man Glasscock, who used to sell it from a stand from a back road stand where I grew up; and how one night he shot and killed a car (with a big bore pistol) driven by a drunk who was tearing up his pumpkin patch one night. The deputies arrested him, probably for reckless something or other, but public outcry was so much in his favor that the DA dropped all charges.

Ron, I grew up on a farm in Southeast Missouri (top of the boot hill) and as such, summer cash was a premium. We grew watermelons (probably 20-25 acres) and we grew veggies from what at the time was called a "truck farm". My Mother tended the garden with the help of myself and my brother who was 18 months younger. We planted that garden, we weeded that garden, and we harvested that garden. As I recall she grew tomatoes, green beans, cucumbers, green peas, strawberries, cabbage, leaf lettuce, and other veggies that I am sure I am leaving out. My dad grew cotton, but he also grew corn, (field corn) and watermelons, and cantaloupes. We lived along side US Highway 62 and just on a corner or curve that was sharp enough to demand traffic slow down. Half way around that curve we had a "leanto" that we stocked with veggies, watermelons, cantaloupes, and lemonade. I am guessing but I suspect that over the summer we kids would make $300-500 off those things, and at the prices then, that is one hell of a lot of fruit and veggies. The good ole days.