caseydog wrote:Larwyn wrote:caseydog wrote:chorizon wrote:Deer ate all our 'maters! We planted a communal garden at the in-laws in Dripping Springs. Its all fenced in, 'cept the dang ol' 'maters. They were in 5 gal. buckets right outside.
Everything's doing pretty good, but nothing is ready yet. Guess we have a brown thumb. We have been eating some really yummy fresh corn from HEB lately though. Can't get enough! I suppose they're local because they're pretty small due to the drought and all.
Remember: "There are only two things money can't buy. True love and home-grown tomatoes!"
The corn is NOT local. Texas corn is cattle feed. It is nice looking, but no good for humans -- tough as cardboard.
CD
That's BS! You must be trying to eat feed corn. Feed corn is large grained and tough and intended for livestock. Sweet corn can be, and is grown in Texas and is as good or better than any corn imported from out of state. The sooner you eat the corn after it is harvested the sweeter it will be.
It isn't BS from my experience. I have thousands of acres of corn fields around my house, and it's ALL feed corn.
Good corn seems to come from a cooler environment. If there is good Texas Sweet corn, I have not found it in the thirty-plus years I have lived here.
But, I am open minded, so if you know where I can get good sweet corn that's grown in Texas, I will try it. Until then, I stand by what I said before.
I have eaten a lot of good Texas produce, but corn isn't on that list.
CD
On the farm our corn field was 20 or 30 acres at the back of the property a good half mile or more form the "truck garden". Feed corn was grown in the corn field and sweet corn was grown in a portion of the garden near the house, the distance was to keep them from cross pollinating, which I was taught would give you an unwanted hybrid.
I've seen those thousands of acres you are talking about in the Dallas area and yes they are feed corn, but I am not aware of a way for anybody to sample it directly from the field legally. Anybody dumb enough to steal a few ears and boil them up deserves the rude awakening that "this ain't people food" and probably good dose of unwanted "chemo".
I do not think my wife's experiment with growing corn, beans and squash together in mounds (known as a "Three Sisters Garden") is going to provide us with enough corn to inspire me to share it with a skeptic such as yourself. Check around, I'm sure there are people within miles of your house that grow good sweet corn. If I remember correctly there is a really good farmer's market at the stockyards in Ft Worth, I'm sure you could find some there. If you go by those thousands of acres around your house you would have to conclude that Texas has no real hills, but I can look out my patio door at "Tivy Mountain" and see that is not true also.
I found good Texas corn on the home farm at an early age and, though no longer on the farm, have been enjoying it for close to 60 years now, but I would think that 30 years (even in Dallas) should give you time to find it, even if by accident.
Your frequent representation of yourself as some kind of authority on Texas has often made me cringe, but this one was so far fetched I could not keep quiet (as I probably should have).
of yours.
by Larwyn » Wed Jun 10, 2009 7:26 pm 
