OK Brandon, talk about wierd. We picked bodacious today, I think 7 or 8, 5 gallon buckets full. It was my last planting. It got knee high, then tasseled. Less than half of the ears are usable because of the heat and drought. I have a few pretty ears, but most suffer from poor pollination.
Yours is a nice green color. The outer shucks no mine are brown, dried , sunburnt, and covered with red dirt. A short, big drops-shower, beat dirt on the barly above-ground ears.
We shucked it all, saved it if it was good enuff to use (when one doesn't have pretty corn but wants some in the winter, a knife can make it look much better). I took the rejects to my daughter for freezing. What looked suitable is goin' to the famers market in the morning. Picking Bodacious reminds me too much of pulling the first flue-cured tobacco primings. It will test one's back.
We have frozen 24-25 quarts of cut corn from our short crop so far. Half was Merit, and half was Silver Queen. I still have half of the Bodacious to pick. Hope to find a little more worth saving.
Yours is a nice green color. The outer shucks no mine are brown, dried , sunburnt, and covered with red dirt. A short, big drops-shower, beat dirt on the barly above-ground ears.
We shucked it all, saved it if it was good enuff to use (when one doesn't have pretty corn but wants some in the winter, a knife can make it look much better). I took the rejects to my daughter for freezing. What looked suitable is goin' to the famers market in the morning. Picking Bodacious reminds me too much of pulling the first flue-cured tobacco primings. It will test one's back.
We have frozen 24-25 quarts of cut corn from our short crop so far. Half was Merit, and half was Silver Queen. I still have half of the Bodacious to pick. Hope to find a little more worth saving.
I'll bet that was a nice surprise to find it all put up when you got home.
