Ears to the Weather: Planning

The Kernel joined us for a Chinese dinner last night.  That was when he broke the bad news to us.  The tiller cannot be fixed, and it is too expensive to replace.  This means we will not be able to use a full 1/4 acre as we planned.

More bad news.  Well, not really.  But it does change our project a little:  Mom & Pop went shopping at Lowes and found us another packet of seeds.  It's called "Ruby Corn."  If we plant all the packet of seeds we have now, that would make it 26! 

Nine of our packets take over 100 days to grow, so we will plant them this weekend in little starter kits Mom & Pop picked up at the store.  We decided we will use the starter kits because the weather has not been so cooperative!  Cold one day, warm the next.  (We learned that the ground needs to be a constant 50 degrees to allow the seeds to germinate.)   Plus, this will give us a chance to figure out our math.  We'll need to know exactly how much space we can assign to each type of corn.  Let's hope Mom & Pop don't find any more corn seeds!  Even our Nana, Sweet Ears, is suggesting we locate more seeds -- especially those mini-cobs of corn often found in Chinese food!  That would make 27 types!