Corn reveals the seasons
Corn is my summer garden
calendar. I plant
new beds of sweet corn every two weeks in spring and early summer,
but the harvests
don't come in two week intervals. Instead, cold soil slows the
growth of early beds, long days and hot weather speed up midsummer
corn, and then fall beds are stunted by shortening daylight.
With only two plantings
of corn left in the garden, I know winter is coming. So does the
corn. Our latest planted corn is tassling short, bound and
determined to at least set some seeds before the frost. I tried
to explain that we still have six more weeks of summer, but the corn
wasn't listening.
I figured the corn had a
point, so I've been washing extra loads of laundry to take advantage of
the last of the summer heat. Winter blankets and coats are much
easier to
dry in August than they would be in November and it'll be nice to
go into cold weather with everything clean.
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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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