Hard Work Growing Corn

Farmer Ken has been working hard growing the corn and it has GROWN! This is some of the tallest corn for this date.

I love the smell of the fields of corn on these hot summer days! The tassels are ready to send out the pollen (look out allergy sufferers) and the ears have the tender light colored silks. A little breeze disperses the pollen, each individual silk will be pollinated and a corn kernel will develop (lots of kernels on each ear we hope!).


The last photo of the yellow flower on the native plant is one of Farmer Ken’s and my favorite (maybe because the name is so intriguing): Birds foot trefoil. (This city girl was on the range and pasture judging team in high school and college for Lancaster County, so I hang right in there with native plant and grass identification!) This low growing, dark leaved plant joins the morning blooming Spider Wort (a native with lavender flowers) that fill the ditches and grassy areas this time of year.