Thursday, July 31, 2008

Sweet Corn

I have been waiting patiently all summer long for the sweet corn to be ready. Clay searched and searched for the perfect seed that would make the sweetest ear of corn... did he find it?

He sure did!!! and ALOT of it. He told me to come to the farm so we could bag up and freeze some I had no idea how much he meant. After six hours of shucking, silking, blanching, stripping and bagging we came up with somewhere around 50 bags of corn to be frozen... did I meantion we still had a cooler of corn left that we decided would have to wait for another day! Come December I will be glad that he picked so much. ;o)
As you can see we made it into a family party.

We are such task masters!

Maybe not... Grandpa set up the pool for him to cool off after all the hard work. Emma had the hardest job of all!!

She Supervised!!

4 comments:

Sara said...

Yay for sweet corn!! That brings back so many memories of my family - every year they had one day set aside to "put up" corn, where all the women would come over and shuck all the corn, take most of it off the cobs, and throw it in the freezer to enjoy all year long.

*sigh* Nothing like growing up on a farm :)

Kathy said...

I keep telling myself that I will be glad that I have done all this come winter... but right now I don't want to see anymore!!

Ali Meyer said...

Looking forward to trying some while we're back! I noticed corn on the cob at the Farmer's Mkt here, so I'll have to compare Belgium corn to Nebr corn!

Ali Meyer said...

It was nice that Garrett helped out; though, it looks like the pool won him over! It was fun seeing a photo of the gang shucking away. Also I'm sure Emma did a good job supervising!