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Posts Tagged ‘sweet corn’
Monday, June 20th, 2011
We (Dave & Joann Rennhack) took a farm tour on Sunday, June 19 to check out our crops. I took a camera along, so you can see, too. On the photos on our home page, our earliest sweet corn is pictured with Dave kneeling, showing that it is knee-high by Father’s Day in 2011. The next photo shows some of our light sweet cherries, with bright yellow mustard (Dave uses special seed; it’s a natural biofumigant) in the background. Can you guess what Dave is doing amongst the apple trees? He is counting apples on a young tree, to make sure the fruit load is appropriate for the size. These lush-looking apple trees will be producing SweeTango(R) apples around September 10 or so. In the next photo are some early black sweet cherries, which will be much riper and darker in a couple of weeks. The photo with the tall posts & wires shows some small, young sweet cherry trees that Dave is growing on a tall spindle system; right now they are supported by bamboo poles. The sixth photo shows some little tomatoes coming along nicely.
Tags: black sweet cherries, light sweet cherries, sweet corn, SweeTango(R) apples, tomatoes
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Wednesday, August 25th, 2010
Yippee! The harvest of SweeTango(R) apples begins todayon our farm in Hart! These are the great new apples you’ve been waiting for! We are pretty excited about them, as you might guess from our home page–three of the six rotating photos feature them! One photo shows an orchard, one shows the top of a tree with apples on it, and one shows Dave enjoying a nice ripe SweeTango(R) apple! Mmm-mmm! The other photos show our fall plums, peaches, and sweet corn, all available & tasty!
Tags: apple, Hart, peaches, plums, ripe, sweet corn, SweeTango(R)
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Tuesday, August 3rd, 2010
Dave & I just enjoyed the new variety of sweet corn that we started picking today. Wowee! It’s a keeper! This is a mid-season variety that is extra tender and sweet. (Dave says, “It’s so sweet you’ll want to have it for dessert!”)
We cooked some extra, so I could cut it off the cob and freeze it. Eight ears of this corn produced seven cups of corn to put in freezer bags for the long cold winter! This is the corn that we’ll have fresh at the market all of this week and well into next week (Dave put in three plantings of it this spring). If you want to freeze a bunch, buy ten dozen ears for a 50-cent discount per dozen.
Tags: fresh, sweet corn
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Monday, July 19th, 2010
The photos on our home page were taken July 11. They are of early sweet corn, peaches, apricots, black sweet cherries, tart (Montmorency) cherries, and our tomatoes which are not ripe yet. We are growing all of these right here in Hart!
Tags: apricots, black sweet cherries, Hart, peaches, sweet corn, Tart cherries, tomatoes
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Monday, July 19th, 2010
The plentiful rain and abundant sunshine we’ve had this spring and summer have made this year’s sweet corn absolutely delicious! Even our earliest variety is very sweet and tasty, and tender, of course! Here in Oceana County (and Hart, specifically) we have received rainfall when other parts of West Michigan have not. If you take a drive north, you can see the telltale signs of insufficient rainfall–cornstalks that are yellow and brown, and leaves on the cornstalks that stick spikily up instead of flopping over. Be sure to enjoy the best crops of summer–and that includes corn on the cob! We start picking our sweet corn early every morning, so you get that fresh flavor!
Tags: fresh, Hart, Oceana County, sweet corn, West Michigan
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