Today was the day, I have been waiting so long but it has finally come. Today was the day that I got to try my very first cob of corn fresh off the plant. The husk at the top of my first cob has been peeled back for a few weeks now, allowing me to test whether or not it is ready to eat. You simply pierce a kernel with your fingernail and if the juice that squirts out is clear it isn’t ready, but once that juice turns cloudy your corn is ready to eat.
My corn - finally ready to eat!
Today was the first time that I tested my cob and was rewarded with a squirt of creamy yellowy liquid – my corn was good to go! The water was on the boil in five minutes flat, and the perfect rows of kernels on my cob were revealed as I peeled the husk off in quiet anticipation. My method of using a pencil to transfer pollen from tassel to silk and ensure fertilisation had clearly worked – every single one of those kernels was fat and juicy.
Undressing the corn one leaf at a time..
With the water boiling and my cob finally free of husk and silk I plopped it in the pot and watched as it changed quickly from the light yellow of dawn to the fierce yellow of the sun at midday.
Less than a minute in the pot is all your super fresh corn will need
Less than a minute later and I pulled my gleaming cob out of the pot, set it on a plate to cool. Then in less than a minute all the golden kernels were gone. It didn’t even need butter or salt – so deliciously sweet it was!
Gleaming golden and not long for this world
Corn is super easy to grow, and one vegetable that is well worth growing at home. As soon as corn is picked the sugars start maturing into starch, so the sweetest corn you will ever eat is sure to come straight from your own backyard.
Happy eating!
Amazing! Oh how I wish I had the room to grow corn! I’m loving my lettuce though