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Post by jazzguy on Sept 4, 2020 13:28:15 GMT -5
I look forward to summer every year partly for our famous sweet Jersey Silver Queen corn and super juicy tomatoes. I'll forgo green veggies and load up on corn and tomatoes for a month so.
I've been able to get some decent tomatoes for my tomatoes basil red onion feta cheese salads w evoo and balsamic, though they're harder to find.
But good corn has been almost unobtanium around here. I managed to get some excellent stuff the first time it hit the shelves. Since then it's been little 8 inch ears of yellow or substandard white.
Just another reason to despise 2020.
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Post by Auf Kiltre on Sept 4, 2020 13:34:56 GMT -5
Just another reason to despise 2020  |
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Post by zoikzz on Sept 4, 2020 13:53:56 GMT -5
I know Iowa got hit hard with storms. Had quite a few cobs here in Westconsin. Even learned a new way to run it between the choppers here at Moe's.
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Post by jhawkr on Sept 4, 2020 14:18:53 GMT -5
I bought some Olathe Sweet Corn earlier this week but haven’t cooked any up yet. We will have it this weekend. It comes from Olathe, Colorado so usually doesn’t show up until late August.
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Post by bonchords on Sept 4, 2020 14:19:50 GMT -5
I've had ok luck with decent tomatoes, but good corn has been harder to find. Great, now I want corn...
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Post by Mfitz804 on Sept 4, 2020 14:42:07 GMT -5
We have not had very good corn thus far. Trying again this weekend.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 4, 2020 15:14:15 GMT -5
Local stuff is great right now. Peaches and plums too. Apples coming.
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Post by langford on Sept 4, 2020 16:06:35 GMT -5
The cobs around here seem a bit smaller and stiffer this year. It's still good, but I've seen better. We grow tomatoes, which were quite late in hitting their stride this summer. Some killer results with the romas and the cherries are looking good now. But the results have been weak with our slicer varieties.
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Post by Taildragger on Sept 4, 2020 16:12:54 GMT -5
I didn't have time for a vegetable garden this year but have watched those of various neighbors. We generally get to much summer fog on the coast for growing corn or full-sized tomatoes, but cherry toms usually do well here. The neighbors' cherry toms are still not completely ripe and here we are in September. This summer has given us more fog and overcast than usual interspersed with periods of excessive heat and blazing sun. We've also had rabbits invading our property this year, which has never happened before. Based on observations and experience from past years, I think if I had gone to the trouble of planting a garden this spring, it would've been a bust.
However, we did get a lot of plums and apples this year.
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Post by Leftee on Sept 4, 2020 16:17:02 GMT -5
We just went out to our fav farm, today, for the last of the yellow freestone peaches. They’ve been excellent this year.
Still waiting on corn, here.
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Post by Mikeyguitar on Sept 4, 2020 17:11:06 GMT -5
It's been years since good corn has been common. Every once in a while we might stumble into a decent batch, but it doesn't taste as good as when I was a kid. Now, tomatoes?... I have some surprise (unexpected) plants growing in what had become predominantly a patch of soil where cilantro grows. I wasn't going to grow tomatoes this year (plenty roadside places to get them) but I'm glad these came up from seeds buried from last year I guess...and they are DELISH! We get peaches from a farm in the area - LOVE summer peaches. Also DELISH!  |
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Post by guildx700 on Sept 4, 2020 23:21:42 GMT -5
In southern Wisc this year my slicer tomato plants have grown 7 feet tall with lots of tomatoes, but few have ripened. Bad year for use here. Our green pepper plant is big, 5 feet tall, but we only got 2 pepper off it so far. Lots of plant growth but little yield.
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