Our FIRST Ever HOMEGROWN POPcorn!
Finally!!!
I have grown many, many things in my life! Could not even begin to count how many gardens I have planted and the variety of vegetables I have grown. But ONE thing always gave me trouble when I attempted to grow it, CORN!
I would get puny little plants that produced little to no corn, ever! So I gave up and stopped trying years ago... Until this May when I decided I HAD to grow Glass Gem corn!
Glass Gem and another heirloom Red Popcorn.
I got a few other colors of heirloom popcorns to try out as well! I thought my new garden beds full of composted goat manure would be perfect for my last ditch effort. To my pleasant surprise, the corn grew big and fast! Then it began producing ears! I had done it! FINALLY! I could now be a proud corn farmer!
Each one unique!
I had left the ears on the plant stalks to dry and they were done when Tropical Storm Irma came at us from the south! As we scrambled to get all our animals in the barn I ran outside and screamed to Ryan, "I can't let my corn go up in a twister!". The stalks were bending over sideways from the force of the wind already!
I quickly began grabbing pieces of corn off the stalks and throwing them in my harvest basket. I mixed all the varieties together so I probably won't be saving any seed this year but next year I know I CAN grow popcorn now! I was pretty proud of our little corn harvest!
We still need to shuck the ears and remove the kernels from the cob and then we will be enjoying our very own Homegrown Popcorn! But for now, we are enjoying their beauty a little longer!
If you want to watch an older video of ours from the day we planted the corn here it is! I warn you it is a goofy but good one!
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Oh I love that! It's just beautiful! So good that you saved it from Irma!! Makes me hungry for a little popcorn but it's dinner time, so I'd better get that started instead. Thanks for sharing some cool pics with us!
Me too! I really want popcorn now as well! After dinner maybe! Thank you!
That is Awesome! Good for you for not giving up! Incredible pics of your corn, I love them! Enjoy their beauty now and then enjoy the their taste later! 😄 Thanks for sharing~ Upped and Steemed!
I'm so glad I tried again! They are so pretty to look at! Thank you!
You're welcome ~
Wow, you grew glass gem corn? I tried growing it a few seasons ago and didn't have much success, but then again I was new to gardening. You've put it back into my heart to get some corn going this coming season! I guarantee I will have popcorn as well!
Yay! More than anything, I love to inspire others to garden! It is so rewarding! The Glass Gem did great for us! I will be ordering twice as much seed next year!
Do you know what your setback was?
1st time growing corn, made a lot of silly mistakes. I tried to go too big, too fast :)
Those pictures are beautiful! My kids love getting popcorn on the cob at farmers markets! We'll have to look into growing our own!
Thank you! That is cool that they sell it on the cob! Do you know how much they charge out of curiosity? You definitely should!
That's great.
I grew sweetcorn for the first time here in Wales this summer. Not a great yield but we did get something.
excellent! even a little is a great accomplishment!
We've had the worst luck growing corn in the past too.. until this year! We did the exact same thing and grew it in one of the old goat pens and sure enough, we got our FIRST ever full sized corn! It is so exciting!
Goat poop must be the secret!
Beautiful seen. thanks for sharing.
Thank you!
Corn and eggplant are the two things I'm terrible at growing. Actually the growing part is fine, it's the keeping the flea beetles off of it that I'm no good at. I've yet to harvest any. Boo. Yours looks beautiful.
My eggplant are always covered in flea beetles but still produce fruit, I wonder why?
I need to start researching now for next year if I'm going to be successful.
You will have to post a video of it popping.
Ooo, that's a good idea!
That is a really good idea! Thanks! I can't wait to taste it!
That's pretty cool. What is it with corn being hard to grow.. I had trouble when i wad younger too.. now i live in the city abd only grow flowers
I think it requires a lot of nutrition and water. This year I had both!