Don't know what happened to this ear of corn. It almost appears to be stuffed with Styrofoam when you look at it. But the kernels are firm and black inside. I don't know if it has a fungus that I heard about on TV or if something else is going on here. I sent the above pictures to the U of MD Agricultural School to see what they say about it. Our other ears of corn are immature but do not show signs of having the same problem. I don't know where this alien corn came from and I hope we don't have more of it. Since this is Silver Queen corn, maybe this is the Mean Queen corn from Sleeping Beauty.
Well, I thought I would never say this, but-----We have an overabundance of tomatoes!!!!! I picked about 21 tomatoes today and I had about 10 on my window sill before I got these. I haven't noticed anything missing since I put up the Alarm Pro sign. I just hope I have this many tomatoes next week so I can take some to my family on the Eastern Shore.
Tonight I'm having a soft crab sandwich (Mars had soft crabs for $28 a dozen), tomatoes from the garden and corn I bought from the "Corn Man." A real summertime dinner!!! The Corn Man is a man that has a truck he brings to a point on Sollers Point road near DCC and sells the best corn from the back of his truck. People line up just to buy his corn. If anyone from this area refers to the Corn Man, everyone knows who he is, hence the name Corn Man. He said that this is Silver King corn and that it is sweeter than Silver Queen. And the Corn Man wouldn't lie, would he? We'll see tonight.
Zucchini seem to be slowing down, but part of that could be because I'm cutting back the leaves because they are keeping the light from other plants. I have 4 large ones in the refrigerator right now that I intend to stuff and freeze for later. I've eaten so much squash this summer I feel like it's coming out of my ears. I took some yellow squash to my Bridge group yesterday and I was surprised but they took them all. I was really grateful for that.
The watermelon is coming along and should be ready to be picked sometime within the next week. I'll talk to Mary about when she would like to pick it. I figure she brought the plant, she should get the melon. There is another one that is getting to be a fair size on that vine, but it still has a couple of weeks to go. I don't know what we're going to do about the cantaloupe. Mary tossed a couple that she said had rotted on the vine. I didn't notice any rotting, but I could have overlooked them. The honeydew plant doesn't seem to be doing much. It does have a blossom on it, perhaps it'll start producing later.
The storm we had earlier this week broke a good size limb off our largest eggplant plant but the rest of the plant seems to be doing well. Although, all the eggplants seem to slowed their production, so maybe we won't get too many more from them.
Well, that's all the gardening news for this week. I wonder what the garden will hold for me next week..........................
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