Comments on: Delicious Home Grown Corn - and a tasty movie about the industrial kind http://leslieland.com/blog/delicious-home-grown-corn-and-a-tasty-movie-about-the-industrial-kind/ Cooking • Gardening • Home Style Thu, 28 Aug 2008 15:25:50 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 By: minnie http://leslieland.com/blog/delicious-home-grown-corn-and-a-tasty-movie-about-the-industrial-kind/#comment-17212 minnie Sun, 03 Feb 2008 03:52:58 +0000 http://leslieland.com/blog/delicious-home-grown-corn-and-a-tasty-movie-about-the-industrial-kind/#comment-17212 Up for the try, in went some corn seeds and, amazingly, up came the stalks, and in what seemed like no time at all, several actual ears. And just as they were forming kernals of any size at all, then came the mice...or whoever they were, and gone was my crop. A typical Australian experience for this relative newcomer. The next year I placed netting around the ears but they got through that easily. Another hitch downunder is that Aussies eat or like their corn much older than I do, or at least accept it that way. Even farm stands and nearby veg shops which source locally sell it much too mature for my taste. They are quick to advertise it as 'sweet' and it is, rather,but not a patch on really young Maine corn! Up for the try, in went some corn seeds and, amazingly, up came the stalks, and in what seemed like no time at all, several actual ears. And just as they were forming kernals of any size at all, then came the mice…or whoever they were, and gone was my crop. A typical Australian experience for this relative newcomer. The next year I placed netting around the ears but they got through that easily.

Another hitch downunder is that Aussies eat or like their corn much older than I do, or at least accept it that way. Even farm stands and nearby veg shops which source locally sell it much too mature for my taste. They are quick to advertise it as ’sweet’ and it is, rather,but not a patch on really young Maine corn!

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