Save the Corn

Yesterday, I had a great lunch.  I went to a Share the Harvest luncheon at Grow Alabama.  They are a multi-farm cooperative that offers freshly grown produce, meat and dairy, mostly from the state of Alabama, through a weekly subscription.  It you are not into growing your own food or don't have time to make it to the farmers' market, this is a great way to get the freshest possible food while supporting the local economy.  Everyone was super nice and provided tons of information without being preachy about it.  And the lunch was delicious.

After leaving that meeting, I was energized to return to my own garden.

At last post, I was wrestling the fact that it was time to thin out my seedlings.  With a heavy heart I did trod to the boxes and began to decide who should live and who should die.  And mind you, while I was contemplating this, I noticed that the carrots are starting to sprout, and I will have to thin those seedlings as well.  Anyway, the night prior, I devised a scheme to save the corn.  So when I went out to the garden, I carried with me an empty flat from the zinnias that I planted the yard.  Uh huh, are you getting what I did?  As I pulled out the extra corn seedlings, I replanted them into the flower flat!  Okay, honestly, now I have the problem of 35 corn orphans.  Um, any one want some seedlings?

Beyond that, the carrots are finally breaking through soil and have grown enough that I can tell the difference between them and the weeds.  The sugar snap peas and green beans have sprouted too.  Only the potatoes have provided me no action.  I can't bat 1.000, so out they came, and into the ground, some nice Japanese eggplant.  My kids don't even like eggplant, so this will be an interesting experiment to see if hands on ownership in their growth will be persuasive to their palates.