Yesterday was damp and chilly, so some outside stuff had to be postponed again. One of the things I did get to, inside, was de-kerneling the popcorn cobs. I’ve had them drying in a cardboard box until now. So I popped on the Roku and found a show on food history to watch. Sadly, there was a fair bit of modern projection inserted that made some claims patently false. It frustrates me when people reframe the past to suit their ideological stance.
Anyhow.
I got through 3 episodes, so that is about 1 1/2 hours to get the corn done. Doing all those tiny cobs started to get rough on the fingertips, but it did allow me to keep just the good kernels.
I got more than I expected, to be honest! Almost exactly 6 cups.
Yes, I did test pop some, but almost none popped. They need to dry more. I currently have them in a container with a desiccant, since the oven still has peppers dehydrating in it. Those are ready to put away. We just haven’t gotten to it, yet.
In other things, we still have no hot water. It’s Thanksgiving weekend, so unless I call an emergency service number, we aren’t going to get a plumber for a while. No hot water may be inconvenient, but it is far from an emergency.
Today and the next few days are supposed to be a bit warmer and, more importantly, dry. A good time to catch up on things outside.
Last night, the forecast was for just above freezing, but I covered some things, anyhow. I’m glad I did. Before one of my apps updated, I saw we had actually dipped below freezing. The peppers and eggplant I covered seem okay. With the volunteer tomatoes, any parts that had grown above their plastic rings had frozen, but the parts below look fine. How long those survive is just a curiosity, since they will not have time to mature.
I have no complaints, though. Our first Thanksgiving here got a blizzard. It’s not at all unusual to get snow in October, so I am appreciating even the rain that delays some jobs.
Time to get to work!
The Re-Farmer
The Re-Farmer 
I think all of history has been framed to suit ‘someone’s’ purpose!
That popcorn looks so good, never thought to try growing that. We stopped trying sweet corn a while back. We like it, but it was so much more trouble than it was worth. Sometimes I throw a few seeds somewhere because they’ve been gifted to us, but they never produce well so they end up going to the pigs anyway.
Did your luffa produce? This was the first year ours did not, too hot. Usually we get volunteers coming up as well, but nope. Good thing I’ve got lots saved from years past. Our fruit trees didn’t produce either, so again, good thing I’ve got loads of pears canned from previous years.
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My mother had always been able to grow lots of corn just fine. She saved her own seed every year, so whatever variety she had, it had become well acclimated to our garden! I didn’t know sweet corn was a thing until she was gifted some seeds when visiting cousins in the US. They grew well, too. I’m torn between working towards growing sweet corn, or growing corn for flour or cornmeal! It’ll be a few more years before we’ve repaired the damage to the soil to get good crops again, though. At least I know they *can* be grown here!
The luffa did better than ever before! There are two gourds that developed. They’re still pretty green, but I’m leaving them out for now. The vines themselves are frost killed, but the new location made a huge difference in how they grew.
What a comfort it must be for you to have a stock of canned fruit for a year like this!
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