Sweet Corn

The other day, Ryan and I harvested two rows of corn. We thought we had harvested at just the right time for sweetness, but soon realized something was wrong...ants!  I hate ants, but they seem to love me. Of course, we both got online to see what does ants in your organic garden mean, well, it means aphids. Evidently ants are a warning sign that you have aphids. 

We've been working to get the aphids under control since. 

 

We cleaned and shucked our harvest, cooking one of the ears to try it out. Man was it good corn. Even though the aphids made our harvest about half of what we would've gotten without them, we stuck with our plan of prepping the remaining corn for freezing. We will test out how tasty it is with freezing in a few weeks. 

We still have much to learn about corn, and all our plants, and the critters and insects that like to eat them.  We have learned so much in the last year since we began this endeavor.