Midget Mutant Corn and Other Garden Products

With the garden wrapping up (hopefully), I thought I would post just some of the fun we had with corn. My parents have been planting corn for as long as I remember, and boy does that fresh from the garden corn on the cob taste great! So, we thought we would give it a shot.

The first row we planted turned out some pretty tasty, albeit tiny, cobs.

The second row...well, this is what I like to call the "mutant corn" row. You will notice from this picture

that the corn did not grow very tall. Hence, the "midget-y-ness."

Also, it tended to produce some very strange-looking specimens. Most of them were just weird shaped and didn't get many ripe kernels. The weirdest of all, however, had to be this:

Yes, that is one husk, two ears. Definitely something in the water. Or the corn. Or the gardeners. :)

But, no worries, these puny rows of corn did provide me with something more than just entertainment:

Now they will be my free autumn decorations!

In the "Other Garden Products" category, we have this little slugger:

Nothing beats a zucchini bat!

And despite our previous setback, we did get a few very delicious watermelons:

Though the (tiny) cantaloupe featured in this photo got left a little too long (when I went to pick it, some bugs fell out of the bottom. I opted not to try it.)

And as a preview of what we have been bombarded with the past week, but which probably warrants its own post:

(If you can see behind the tree in the front of this photo, you may notice there are two other trees full of peaches as well...)