One of my favorite summer pleasures

[Phil Yearout]

Husking fresh sweet corn with a cold beer alongside. I'm told it's ribs and sweet corn for dinner; woohoo!

[Steiner]

We love the summer for many reasons and local sweet corn is one of them. We’re right at the beginning of our local season and the sweet corn has been great. Enjoy!

[Stan Hillis]

I grow 8 rows of sweet corn about 700' long each year and give the majority of it away. Farming like I do for a living it's easy to have the "patch". When we're planting field corn under the pivot irrigation systems we just pause at one of them and empty out the filed corn seed out of the eight row planter and pour in about 5 lbs. of Obsession sweet corn seed. It gets heavily fertilized and irrigated so it makes thousands of ears.

Obsession variety is extremely expensive as it is a GMO variety that resists corn earworms and can be over sprayed with glyphosate. It is a yellow and white mingled variety. All our friends and family invariably say it is the best tasting sweet corn they've ever eaten. It costs us $400 for a 10 lb. bag. We plant 5 lbs. one spring then put the rest of the bag in cold storage until the next year. It keeps fine for a year like that.

Ours is just about picked over now and what's left is probably getting too hard to eat. Speaking of eating . . . . I like to take the shucked and silked ear and smear room temperature butter all over it, salt and pepper it, and wrap in two layers of foil, then grill it while the baby back ribs are slow cooking. It'll make a bulldog climb a plate glass window!

[Phil Yearout]

How long on the grill Stan?

[Stan Hillis]

Lemme see . . . . on med. heat prolly about 30 minutes. On low, a little longer. It'd be hard to overcook it in that foil. All the moisture stays inside. I recall that the foil was blackened just a bit on the outside.

I use coarse sea salt or coarse pink Himalayan salt and fresh ground pepper. And, PLENTY of Land O' Lakes butter. 😉

[mobirdhunter]

Now I'm gonna be hungry all day!

[Phil Yearout]

Something from the archives; 2019 it says...

Husking Fresh Sweet Corn

It’s a simple summer pleasure,
alone at the trash bin,
a cold beer on the fence stringer.
Take an ear from the yellow sack,
three, four pulls at the most
reveals the pale white and yellow goodness beneath.
Pick off the few strips of the innermost soft protection,
then snap the stem.
A quick up and down removes most of the hair –
the rest will disappear in the washing.
Drop it in the big plastic bowl,
repeat.
A baker’s dozen
in case you find a bad one
which seldom happens.
Enjoy the process
but don’t tarry…
the boiling pot,
butter, salt, pepper await!

[Rick Roemer]

I also love sweet corn and usually grow eight rows. I end up giving most of it away, but the friends I’ve made by giving away the corn is definitely worth it

I grow a variety of yellow supersweet called Moonshine.

I’m with Phil there’s nothing better than shucking corn while having a beer.

Around here we try to have a pot of water boiling before I pick it! I’ll have to try the grill method -I’ve had it that way but never done it myself

We normally have a lot of extra and my wife and I will spend a couple days cutting it off and freezing.

Definitely an indicator of a good summer

I usually run a high and low strand of electric to keep the coons and deer out as best as I can

Rick

[Stan Hillis]

Speaking of electric fences and deer, there is a fairly new development in deer fences that I've watched this year, in person, and am very impressed. You put up two fences, a few feet apart. The inside fence has two strands of electrified wire, not really high. The outside fence has one strand and is positioned in height between the two inside strands. It messes with the deer's depth perception and seems to be almost 100% effective at keeping deer out. I'm going to build one this winter to enclose a permanent dove field.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MVbkqsj2NEc

[Rick Roemer]

Sounds interesting. Generally if I use aluminum foil and peanut butter, the deer learn pretty quick not to mess with the field. The coons are really a more of a problem for me. I can set traps but with my dogs I don’t trust that or poison, of course