Planting Corn

 

 

           When I think of summer I think of swimming in the pond and eating fresh corn on the cob.  When the fall comes the corn stocks make a perfect decoration for the front porch for Halloween.   (My husband thinks of the corn stocks fed to the cattle and horses, they love them.)

            Sweet corn does well with peas, beans, cucumbers, potatoes, squash and pumpkin.  Peas and beans help corn by restoring to the soil the nitrogen used up by the corn.    Indians used to put a fish in every corn hill.

            The shade of the corn helps squash, pumpkins, melons and cucumbers.  Pole beans planted with corn will climb the stalks.

            Don’t plant tomatoes near corn as they share the identical fruitworm and corn earworm.

            If you plant marigold near corn it is said the Japanese beetle does not chew off the corn silks.

            Enjoy your corn t his summer, and freeze it and enjoy it all year round!  Come later in the summer I’ll tell you how I freeze corn.