Most years our corn comes off right around 4th of July if planted the second week of April. This year it is early. All that heat over the last three weeks has brought it on faster.

It's not the best corn year ever or the worst. Most of the early stalks have only one ear. In a good year, we get two ears per stalk.

Glenn spread the chicken litter in March instead of Oct or Nov as he usually does and I wonder if the wood shavings (even though they were mixed with manure) tied up some nitrogen. Won't do it that way again. Will either spread in fall or compost first.

Still, picked almost a hundred ears today and that is just 1/4 of the patch.

The 2" if rain we got over the weekend should bring the late corn to maturity. We always plant it two weeks apart, but it doesn't mature two weeks apart.

And in other news....the tomatoes are ripening earlier than usual for me too. Made the first batch of pico de gallo today, with almost too much "pico". I don't like it very hot.