[painter]

How is your corn crop doing? I mean farm crop.

The corn crops up here in Missouri have burned up from drought and heat.

[Augie]

Still miserably hot and dry here in Central Missouri. I’ve got 20 gallons of tomatoes picked that need to be made into salsa and canned over the next day or two. Got the first picking of okra yesterday evening. Peaches on one tree are ready to pick. Cucumbers are going nuts but have been bitter due to the extreme heat. And the weeds are winning. LOL

[JustaDumbBlonde]

painter, I am almost ashamed to report that we have the best corn crop ever. It is absolutely huge and full ... pollinated every kernel. I will have to post a photo or two of some of the ears ...

We saw some really burned up corn when we came through S. Dakota, Iowa and Missouri recently. Every irrigation system between Louisiana and Montana was running. Our hearts were hurt looking at the dry land crops. We've been there and done that and know how devastated the farmers are.

[freedommom]

I heard a garden show last week and they were talking about biochar..
the indians a long time ago put their charcoal into their
land year after year..
alas it's been years since this has been done and our soils are depleted.

anyways when you add biochar it really helps with drought
and makes plants grow like crazy (one man said he had 162 tomatoes on one plant after he added the biochar)

I'm gonna order a stove to make my own biochar as we have 267 dead trees from last year

[JustaDumbBlonde]

Here are some average ears ... we've got some that's larger and some that's a bit smaller. The ear on the right is not far from harvest ... the two on the left are later, planted behind wheat.