Resources

We went to our local library and asked the librarians for their help in finding good resource books on corn.  They found two titles which we borrowed.

The first one is called "Grow the Best Corn" by Nancy Bubel, published in 1981.  It's a small book but it has a lot of interesting information.

The second book is called, "The Story of Corn," by Betty Fussell, published in 1992.  It has a lot more information in it, including myths, history, and more.  It will take awhile to read it.

Hopefully both of these books will help us have a great crop!  If you click onto the books it will lead to Amazon where you can peek inside and see what they're about.

One of the cool parts from the first book talks about the pests, like corn earworms, corn rootworms and the corn borer.  Although we grew some corn in our garden last year, we don't recall seeing any of these pests.  We wonder if it's because we used lady bugs and praying mantises to help control pests.