Hands down my favorite summer vegetable is sweet corn. Well...zucchini is a favorite too. And of course a nice, fresh, crisp cucumber. But corn is easily in my top 5 summer vegetables. Anyway, my aunt and uncle have a really large corn field in their yard. I'm not entirely sure what they do with all this corn. But the past two summers they've given us lots and lots of their sweet corn. We've always gladly accepted this offer and proceed to them spend a few hours husking all of it, boiling it, and them freezing it. We recently put corn away for the season, which was just in time because we were fast approaching our last bag from the freezer of last year's corn.
Here's our progress a few bags in:
The corn is grown organically, so there's always the chance of a few bugs or worms along the way. Here's a bright green one that I found happily chewing away as I peeled back the husks:
The corn was dropped off at my parents' house, so while we were there, we checked out the decline of what used to be a garden last year. Yes, these are weeds that are taller than me. Last year at this time, there were tomato plants and zucchini planted here. A few random tomatoes did come up from seed this year. There's a plant in the front right side of this picture.
. Actually, there is a zucchini plant in the front of the picture below. In May, there were rows and rows of sugar peas planted here. We harvested many, many baskets of them. It's sort of crazy to think how different this area was a mere three months ago. Not sure how high these weeds will grow....
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