{"id":807,"date":"2010-09-03T14:54:51","date_gmt":"2010-09-03T18:54:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homegrownonahobbyfarm.com\/?p=807"},"modified":"2011-11-15T18:02:35","modified_gmt":"2011-11-15T23:02:35","slug":"sweet-corn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homegrownonahobbyfarm.com\/index.php\/2010\/09\/sweet-corn\/","title":{"rendered":"Sweet Corn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-812\" title=\"Corn_on_cob\" src=\"https:\/\/www.homegrownonahobbyfarm.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Corn_on_cob1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" \/>We bade a fond farewell to our sweet corn a week ago.<\/p>\n<p>Nothing, and I mean nothing, beats the taste of\u00a0 a freshly picked ear of sweet corn. <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-814\" title=\"Corn_reveal\" src=\"https:\/\/www.homegrownonahobbyfarm.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Corn_reveal.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" \/>My husband always plants the old standby \u201cSilver Queen.\u201d It&#8217;s been a popular variety with farmers for decades and has a maturity of 92 days. This year, we also planted \u201cBodacious\u201d which has a 75-day maturity and \u201cDelectable\u201d with an 84-day maturity. The different days to maturity as well as staggered plantings, allow for a sweet corn harvest over several summer weeks if you&#8217;re a savvy planter!<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve frozen corn in the past by cutting it from the cob, blanching it, and securing in freezer bags. I&#8217;ve even canned it\u2014which is fairly time-consuming because of the processing time in the pressure canner. The best way to enjoy it, though, is right out of your garden, right out of the pot, and <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-818\" title=\"CornHusk\" src=\"https:\/\/www.homegrownonahobbyfarm.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/CornHusk.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" \/>right off the cob!<\/p>\n<p>Parting is such sweet sorrow&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We bade a fond farewell to our sweet corn a week ago. Nothing, and I mean nothing, beats the taste of\u00a0 a freshly picked ear of sweet corn. My husband always plants the old standby \u201cSilver Queen.\u201d It&#8217;s been a popular variety with farmers for decades and has a maturity of 92 days. This year, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[53,35,18,30,19,39],"class_list":["post-807","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-corn","tag-family","tag-farming","tag-food-preservation","tag-hobbyfarm","tag-vegetable-garden"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homegrownonahobbyfarm.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/807","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homegrownonahobbyfarm.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homegrownonahobbyfarm.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homegrownonahobbyfarm.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homegrownonahobbyfarm.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=807"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.homegrownonahobbyfarm.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/807\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homegrownonahobbyfarm.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homegrownonahobbyfarm.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homegrownonahobbyfarm.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}