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To: piscatologist who wrote (5221)	8/17/2001 8:58:16 PM
From: Clappy	Respond to of 104181

Piscato, Last year I grew Silver Queen corn which grows over 7 ft. tall and is great tasting, and some yellow sweet corn (I forget the hybrid). We had a few good ears. Maybe 10 or so (out of 40 stalks). Much of it though didn't fully mature or the stalks blew over due to the wind. I love fresh corn, but I felt it was taking up a lot of room in my garden that I'd rather use for other stuff that had a better chance of prospering. Besides, I live near several farms where I can get it fresh and it usually costs very little. This year our Zuchini died off due to the heat wave. Only had two or three instead of the normal number closer to twenty... Tomatoes did well. My wife and I spent last Sunday canning 6 jars of tomato sauce and made 5 pints of Salsa using the hot and peppers we grew. It came out excellent. Best salsa I ever made for myself. Used up a lot of Jalapenos, Red Hot Tai, and Red Hot Italian peppers along with a few green and purple sweet bell peppers. I didn't over-do it this time with the hot ones so it came out just right for my liking. Polvo would have been proud... Wifey thinks it's a tad hot so we made some fresh uncooked salsa for her. Now during this week we picked another two huge bowls full of tomatoes and peppers so we will probably do the same thing together this Sunday. Last year we made about 30 jars of sauce that lasted us almost a year. Tasted 20 times better than anything you could find in a store (except for the 1st 6 jars that I sort of ruined by trying to use up our hot peppers in it. That sauce was molton lava... Our Sugar Snap Peas did well. I never really cared for peas growing up, but the ones from our garden were very sweet. I love them. My little sons would pick them right off the plant and eat them right there in the garden (I would check them first) like it was candy. Our brocholi didn't do so great for the 2nd year in a row. I don't think I will waste my time with that and the colliflower again next year. I want to try planting water mellons, honey dews, and pumpkins next year. The leaf lettuce and Romaine lettuce always comes out good but is usually way to much to eat. Our egg plants did well this year but we seem to have problems with some sort of beetle that likes to live on them... I should really try to make a compost pile. We throw a lot of our scrap food right into the garbage. When I was in college I had a weekend job working as a grounds keeper for a weathy marine biologist who was one of the first to farm clams on land in tanks providing them with the ultimate conditions to grow quickly. Anyhow, he had this huge compost pile in the far back corner of his property. Every non-meat scrap like coffee grinds, egg shells, orange peels, left overs, etc., would go into this pile along with the grass clippings, and a small amount of leaves and twigs. It would all reduce down to rich brown/black compost that I would put in his gardens. His flowers were beautiful. Vegetables were huge. He never used any chemicals. Everything was organic. Even his methods of fighting pests like beetles and bugs... Every weekend I had dozens of questions for him. I only wish I asked more. Or remembered the answers... I learned a lot from that dude and got paid 50 bucks for each Saturday. That $50 made me one of the richest dudes on my dorm hall of 30 or so guys. That usually meant I was going to be the one to buy the beer... Anyhow, I started out writing a simple three line reply and seem to have gotten a little carried away... It jogged a few memories for me though. Thanks for asking me about the corn... <g> Thank God I'm a country boy! (on the weekends...) -JohnDenversSmile