LOL! 14’? Instead of using a ladder, just chop it down, collect the ears, and saw the stalks into cord wood.
Ah yeah. NO. My dad is Mr. Agriculture. (professionally). Driving down the road and he says “Name that plant.” “NO, GD, IN THE LATIN!!!”. ;-)
We (he) does. Remember that squirrel stew last month? Every year there seems to be a different challenge with his garden. Don’t know that he could claim to be a “prize-winning” gardener since the only competition he ever enters in is against Mother Nature. But judging by the amount of things-quantity-PURE VOLUME, of everything I have to preserve, he is winning.