Expanding the Garden
On Wednesday we ran over to my mom’s house because she’s letting us expand her garden. Since we have limited full-sun areas in our gardens, she offered to let us plant our popcorn at her house.
My mom and I covered the new garden area with a tarp back in March so that the grass would be smothered. When we uncovered it, it was ready to till up.
We pulled out the old tiller and finally got it started. I had a good laugh, it was a lot like Good Neighbors.
When it was finished my mom’s garden is now 1/3 larger than it was. I’ll be heading over some time next week to plant my popcorn, beans and squash for a proper 3 sisters garden.
Anyone else growing popcorn?
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I wish I could – many times this winter I had a craving for it but couldn’t find a local source. But I just don’t have the space now – maybe someday. Congrats on the garden expansion, and the chance to add new crops.
to Mangochild's comment
Nope, broom corn, Indian corn, open-pollinated corn, and hybrid corn, but not popcorn.
Your garden looks lovely!
~Faith
to Faith's comment
No corn. It seems like a lot of space for minimal return. Plus, we have a LOT of corn around here. I mean a LOT. Like, a LOT OF CORN. Like I can take you to a place where I can drive four miles, and other than the road there is nothing bu corn. No telephone poles, no houses, no sheds, nothing but CORN. LOTS OF CORN.
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We really want to grow popcorn in our school garden because it’s something that could be planted at the end of the year in June and harvested in the fall. We didn’t get it in this year, but maybe that’s because I’m supposed to watch you do it first ;-)
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We’re growing a calico popcorn this year. It’s our first year growing corn so this should be interesting!
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Ours is Ruby Red, we buy the calico from someone locally. It’s quite tasty!
to Susy's comment
2 different kinds of sweet corn… the early corn is already getting tall because of all the rain we’ve had. but no popcorn… maybe next year! btw, look at the close up of those calf muscles in that last pic! lol :)
to deedee's comment
I have an even better close up of those calves, I can send it to you if you’d like it :)
to Susy's comment
Thank you very much!
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[…] were ready to plant on Monday. So I headed over to my mom’s house to plant it in the plot that we tilled up several weeks ago. Yesterday we added some compost and other amendments and worked them into the soil. Then I set […]
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[…] some popcorn at my mom’s house in her garden. She gets a lot more sun than we do, so she offered to expand her garden so we could have some space over there. We planted popcorn quite a while ago. While over for a […]
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