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Ok, I’ll give you something to laugh about.

I ordered some Yukon Chief sweet corn seeds from bestcoolseeds.com. Planted them out the Thursday or Friday before Labor Day.

They were tassling less than 4w later. They’re only about 18”-2’ tall right now LOL. Fully tasseled out. Our daily highs have been high 80’s to low 90’s and night time lows have been anywhere from upper 50’s for a couple nights to mid 70’s and everywhere in between.

Hubby tilled in a couple of buckets of chicken poop (fresh) before I planted. I soaked the seed overnight in warm water. Once it was up, I strew another bucket of fresh chicken poop directly around the 6” or so tall seedlings, then I mulched it with newspapers covered by grass clippings. We haven’t had much rain so I put a soaker hose amongst it all and I’ve soakered it deeply once or twice a week. Can already see the little baby ears.

I’m *hoping* to get a few smallish ears for my kids and to let the rest of it go to seed, IF the weather will cooperate this year. I will likely have to arrange a covering of some sort using tposts, 2X4’s and plastic covering if the weather doesn’t cooperate.

Ok, that’s my funny for this week’s thread. Planting corn at Labor Day. YMMV.