Sweetcorn has been coming "on line" for the past week. There were a few ears from the first planted batch, the second planted batch basically didn't grow or the plants got eaten by something. So these are the third and fourth batches, which were planted early / mid June I think, and I wondered if that was too late. As it turned out, they are producing a lot of big tasty perfect ears.
This also answered a couple of questions I had. One, there wasn't enough room to plant four-row blocs, which was recommended for best pollination. Instead, I planted three-row blocs. Those have done fine pollination-wise. Maybe a few small ears, but not a problem. I also wondered if they were planted too late. This makes for a fall crop, but did much better than the earliest ones. Which where OK and better than nothing when I got some sweet corn from those.
There were a lot of tomatoes to pick at the same time as the sweetcorn.
I think these were "Ambrosia" but they might be "Bodaceous". I like the "SE" type corn. The supersweets are too sweet and not enough corn flavor. The SE type ripens for me, is sweet but not sugary sweet, and has a good flavor, tender but not mushy kernels.
I blanch for three minutes in boiling water, transfer to ice water, and when cool, slice off "planks" of corn. They don't make planks if sliced when hot, which is interesting. I like those. This is different from fresh, but such good flavor and so welcome in midwinter, that I grew extra this year just to freeze. The last bloc is also almost ready to harvest.
