Oh deer!

We just finished planting four more varieties of corn: Broom (regular), Truckers Favorite White, Truckers Favorite Yellow, and Stowell's Evergreen.  That makes nine planted of the original 14 that take more than 100 days to harvest.  In looking at the calendar, that would make these ready somewhere around September 21st.   We hope the summer will hang around that long!

We also decided to measure some of the corn that is doing quite well.  The tallest is Bloody Butcher, measuring at 10 inches tall.  This means it doubled it's height since we transplanted it last weekend! 

Since we haven't installed some sort of system to water the corn yet, we watered it all by hand, with a bucket.  We did pretty good until some water spilled on us, and spilled some more and some more.  Soon we found ourselves very wet and muddy.  Mom had to hose us down and boy was that water ca-ca-ca-cold!! 

The Kernel stopped by just a little bit ago and took a look at the tracks we found around our corn field.  Not good.   "Deer," he said, "by the looks of it a baby, it's mother and a buck too."  The Kernel said he would be back tomorrow with something to help keep them away.  We're not sure what that will be.

This means we have wood chucks, rabbits, and now deer to keep a watchful eye out for.  We wonder what real farmers do to keep these animals away from their crops.  We have more research to do!

 

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