Oooh glut time for sure! I haven’t seen corn prices like that for many a year… and i live in an area with local corn fields for days! Canada food prices
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Hooray, those look fantastic!! I would love having an extended growing season like that, i can see good it is worth the sweaty months! My zone is considered an long garden season but it ain’t hot for long so everything gets moldy in the autumn time, goes be strategic with crop choice lol
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My in-laws live in Wisconsin and corn season is late August. But the good stuff is still expensive. I think it’s just hard to grow and it’s a hybrid, but it is good.
Yeah, i love corn so much so i do splurge once in a while. Im so pumped to harvest some! Probably in August as well
Planted my sweet corn on May 1st in a bed of woodchips and horse manure i laid down during the fall:
My grain corn planted on April 3rd in unamended broadforked clay soil:
Aaannnd I’ll wait to share pictures of my sporadic grain corn bed until the stalks are large enough that they stand out a bit better 
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Well, sad to say that my 9 yr old and I found the corn not edible last night. We shucked them, admired the purple cob and the bits of purple on the yellow cobs. We laughed that the water they were boiled in turned purple and the purple cob turned black or very dark brown with cooking. I cooked them as I normally cook sweet corn, but the kernels were… Too tough? Too starchy? So I cooked them longer. 3 iterations of this, and I decided, we were done. Alas, I don’t know what I did wrong!
But, I cut all the kernels off the cobs and are now frozen ready for soup or potpie or something that needs loose cooked kernels.
So, my thoughts. Did I harvest too early or too late? Did I cook them too long or not long enough? They looked like very nice cobs of corn, but it was as if each kernel had lots more in it, or was much starchier. (Is that even a word?) Or far tougher than the sweet corn I’m used to, as in purchased at the store likely a hybrid.
@MamaRachael probably some combination of not as sweet as you’re used to and (mostly) a bit too late of harvest. You can see that the red-kerneled ear was significantly past milk stage because the husks are drying down and turning brown/tan. Try some more that aren’t as far along and see if there’s a difference. If not, it’s possible you have some non sweet corn type genetics mixed in that are making them starchier.
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First time doing a three sister’s using the GTS grain corn, Cherokee Trail of Tears pole beans, and the GTS muskmelon mix. Planted into 3-4 year decomposed wood chips (a reclaimed path/border), with a generous handful of alfalfa pellets sprinkled on top. The corn is up and I am definitely finding that some are thriving in these conditions and some not so much. See the difference in heights by looking at the flags, which are all the same height. I planted the seeds five weeks ago. Beans went in the ground about 10 days ago. Muskmelons were planted five days ago and are not up yet.
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Its possible some cross pollination. About 0.75 mile away are huge fields of corn that we think are for ethanol. I was hoping we were far enough away, but maybe not? 
Try #2. I picked ones that seemed a tad “early”, so we’ll see! There are three that are clearly past prime, as husks were starting to dry out. I’ll let the end get seed from them. They look to be large and full cobs.
Some very likely picked early. Most interesting was the worm/caterpillar that gets into corn was only in the yellow only cobs so far, none in the cobs that have at least a bit of purple.
Does tasting them raw reveal much? As I how sweet or over ripe or what have you?
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Yes, usually a pretty accurate test for flavors and ripeness.
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That one I’m pointing at was very sweet and tender, so I’m saving it for seed. The others also for full cobs and not too bad taste.
Of these I cooked up, the four eaten were wonderful. The bottom 7 were meh, so cut kernels off to freeze for soup, etc
This corn GTS breeding is hard! And complicated
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