Corn + Ammonia Nitrate = Shazam wizbang bang boom!

[CrealCritter]

I've eaten lots of different thing in my life but corn smut is crossing that fine line into thanks but no thanks land.

 

[frustratedearthmother]

LOL! I used to hope my corn would get smut just so I could have some more!

Here's the issue for you since you don't want it - the spores can inhabit the soil for up to 7 years and it can happen next year too....also....the use of high nitrogen fertilizer...

Heck - just read this: https://www.planetnatural.com/pest-problem-solver/plant-disease/corn-smut/

 

[baymule]

@frustratedearthmother I have a smutty ear of corn. What did that taste like?

 

[frustratedearthmother]

It's been a couple years, but it's very earthy. I sautéed some garlic in butter and then added the smut.
(aka: huitlacoche)

"Loaded with soluble fiber, the amino acid lysine and the antioxidant anthocyanin, the moist young galls are collected two or three weeks after the corn becomes infected. If not harvested the galls will grow hard and spore-filled looking a smutty dark blue or black. The flavor of young galls is musty, earthy if not smokey. Less expansively they taste like a cross between mushrooms and corn."

 

[baymule]

Earthy? They taste like dirt?

 

[frustratedearthmother]

lol, not quite that 'earthy' I'm terrible at describing taste!

 

[baymule]

Recipes I looked up said earthy. Great description, makes me want to fry up a skillet of compost. LOL One recipe said a taste between corn and mushrooms. Stands to reason it would taste like corn and mushrooms, duh.

 

[CrealCritter]

Sweet corn is ready... Yins come and get some, while the gettin's good

I live eating raw sweet corn.

 

[frustratedearthmother]

It's beautiful! But, it's delicious too! Love it raw myself...so good.

 

[CrealCritter]

Sun flowers are finally just starting to bloom. There's a lot of them, good thing too, because I have a lot of birds who love them.