Love the prep, but, it turns out, too much else goes on around here, to pay attention to the garden.

You know how many silk there are ?
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for every kernel … ain’t Nature grand ?

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Thanks!

the way i understand things.

I pull those all the time.

Seed companies would contract with a farmer to produce hybrid corn seeds for the following year’s planting. There’d be four female rows, then one male row, four female, one male, etc. We’d go down the female rows, pulling out the tops before they became mature enough to produce pollen. The male plants had some characteristics that they wanted to introduce to the gene pool. $0.95/hour

This isn't your Mayan's idea of corn.....

The new GMO seeds have terminator genes that prevent you from saving seeds from this year’s crop to plant next year. They won’t sprout, forcing you to buy more. I’ve read that these terminator seeds are disrupting the corn culture in Mexico because the pollen can travel on the wind a long ways and infect other fields. Different strains of corn are important in ceremonies and they may be in danger of being exterminated.

Thanks.

I'm a methodical corn-on-the-cob eater. I like to eat 2 rows at a time to savor it longer, but have to start with 3 rows because it easier to get my teeth around 3 rows for the first "trip" along the cob. Then, 2 rows at a time until the cob is almost bare. There are always 3 rows left.

I find this intriguing, because it means there are an even number of rows of kernels on the cob - such symmetry in nature.

Yours is the most logical.