Stocking up on sweet corn
I might have gone a
little overboard on our second-to-last sweet-corn planting this year.
Some of the earlier plantings consisted of old seed that didn't sprout well, so I filled in a pretty big 
area when the new seed came in the mail. But now I'm stuffing bags of sweet corn in every nook and cranny of our larger chest freezer, trying to decide if we need to plug in the smaller spillover freezer just for the sake of corn.
In the end, I froze five
quarts of corn Thursday and I have nearly as many left to go before this
planting is fully processed. The big question is --- will our final
planting have time to mature, or will this weekend's forecast low of 44
turn into a first freeze nearly a month earlier than usual? (Yes, our
lows are often at least 10 degrees below the forecast.)
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About us: Anna Hess and Mark Hamilton spent over a decade living self-sufficiently in the mountains of Virginia before moving north to start over from scratch in the foothills of Ohio. They've experimented with permaculture, no-till gardening, trailersteading, home-based microbusinesses and much more, writing about their adventures in both blogs and books.
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Nayan --- Since 99% of the food we eat is homegrown, I go for flavor and nutrition first every time. Thus my lack of canning. I've found that even during a summer power outage, our chest freezer stays frozen solid if unopened with a quilt over the top for at least 24 hours before needing topped up by the generator.
W. --- Well, we use the corn as more of a seasoning (sweetening agent really) so our ten quarts go a lot further than that. But maybe you're right --- maybe we can use more....
Willi --- Great input! We actually did dry some sweet corn on the cob last year because a friend gave us some that wasn't quite up to my culinary standards. (Yes, we're spoiled.) We just dried the corn by leaving it out on the drying racks for a while during the late summer heat. The goats adored the result! I doled out a little bit of dried sweet corn every few weeks whenever they needed a treat, and they would do just about anything for it.
Rhonda --- We go for the supersweets (hybrids), so they sure are delicious! This is Vision, but I have to say that all of the supersweet corns we've tasted are excellent. As for how many ears to fill a quart bag --- I should have counted! I filled my half-bushel basket to the brim with unhusked corn, which resulted in five quarts of kernels if that helps.