Picked sweet corn

[CrealCritter]

My granddaughters and I picked the last of the sweet corn. It's a HOT one again today in southern IL - I sweating up a storm... But the sad thing is I know when we pick the last of the corn - that the end of summer is coming fast

This is what's left after we had several meals and gave some away... Now we gotta sort out the small / bad ones to give to the chickens and then vacuum seal the rest to freeze for winter use.

My wife is perfectly fine with me dumping yard cards full of sweet corn on the porch

 

[CrealCritter]

Well with the help of Paw Paw's little helper we managed to get the deep freezer cleaned out enough for the sweet corn.

Chickens got some frozen treats. They will love me extra long time now

I caught one Paw Paw I caught one! - June bug sure does love baby chickens.

I use a yard card / she has a wheelbarrow. Wife made she has one to help to help Paw Paw

Thanks to the help of my granddaughters, this seasons corn is put up now.

All this great help has got me very tired -:lol

 

[CrealCritter]

Wonderful harvest and I love that first pic of your granddaughter with the chickens Happiness is, right there!

She just loves chickens expecially the baby ones. I've been teaching her how to take care of them also.

Did you notice those black boots she wearing? She calls them her "chicky boots" I bought the smallest pair I could find and they are still way to big... My wife bought her pink ones that fit her but she won't wear them because their not black like Paw Paw's Chicky Boots. Grand kids are the best!!!

Shhhh... Don't tell... but in November she's getting 6 of my buff orpengton hens, a rooster, chicken yard and a coop for her third birthday. It's ok - I've already ok'd it with her Mom and Dad

 

[frustratedearthmother]

Want me to make room in my freezer too? Just in case, LOL!!

 

[CrealCritter]

sweet! we didn't get much corn this season. too much rain, smut took most of the crop.

1/2 100% Neem oil / 1/2 Palmolive Orginial and water really helps - I had to spray mine this year because we got so much rain and have humidity also. Prefect combo for smut...

Best / cheapest place I found for 100% uncut Neem oil ---> https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B01LY91FMT?psc=1&th=1

 

[Wannabefree]

Smut is considered a delicacy in Hispanic cuisine...just FYI...I'm full of almost useless facts lol

 

[baymule]

When our oldest grand daughter (10 now) was 3, I took her to the feed store and we bought 6 sex link chicks. I figured she might "love" a couple to death, but you never saw a more careful child. She carried chicks around for the week she and her parents stayed with us. We still have one of those chickens, Robin, a black sex link with a red breast, the matriarch of the flock.

We keep "chicken boots" at the door in a not so neat pile.

 

[sumi]

Truth is I have entirely too many hens now that the first brood of 14 this late winter has come in to lay.

There is no such thing as "too many hens" Sell, trade or give away the extra eggs. I sold my extras and the demand was so huge, I ended up building up to a flock of over 100 birds and still came nowhere close to having enough eggs for everyone that wanted some.

 

[frustratedearthmother]

Nice haul!

 

[CrealCritter]

Trimmed an vacuum seal about 32 gallons. I BTed (Bacillus Thuringiensis) the tips about 3 or 4 days to late due to rain and got a minor infestation of tip worms. I trimmed well past the tip worms.

For the chickens, they really go nuts for sweet corn and will love me long time now -lol

Now I just have to go and get rid of some old stuff in the freezer to make a little room for the corn.