Not digging all the results

Yesterday, since the four-day heat wave broke, we managed to prepare planting another type of corn before having to go to a meeting at our school last night.  Today, after school, we were able to spend more time in our corn field, managing to plant -- or really transplant -- three more types of corn: Hickory King, Maize, and Bloom (Multi-color).  We decided to plant these because they had the most sprouts.

This means we have officially planted five of the 14 varieties that take more than 100 days to grow.  Plus we still need to plant all the other varieties that take much less time to grow!  We sure do have a lot more work to do!  No wonder the reason kids were given the summer off to work in the fields!

We are disappointed that many of the varieties we pre-started nearly four weeks ago (May 25th) have of yet to sprout.  Why is that?  We don't think it is a container versus a starter kit issue because both had big failures.  So we're wondering if it is weather related.  Did that frost warning we had a few weeks back damage some of the seeds?  We're not sure.  Stowell's Evergreen, which we reported as the first to show good sprouting signs had sputtered out.  We had a frost warning that night.  We will need to restart Stowell's Evergreen by seed, directly in the ground. 

We sent an email to a local corn grower asking if we can visit their farm and ask questions about growing corn.  If they agree, we plan on asking what they think could have been the problem.  Mom said she heard they sold their farm so a shopping store could be built there.  We hope not!

And, our other problem is back, eating our superheros -- the Marigolds that we are planting to help ward off rabbits.  Is our wood chuck back, dining on our flowers?  Or could it be deer?  We're going to call the Kernel and see if he can tell who, or really what has been munching on our flowers.