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From: setha@teklds.UUCP (Seth D. Alford)
Newsgroups: net.garden
Subject: When to harvest corn?
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Date: Thu, 18-Sep-86 15:45:47 EDT
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How do I tell when an ear of corn is ripe?  Dick Raymond's gardening
book recommends that you put your thumb on the top of the ear near the
silk and see if the ear is flat.  If its flat its ripe, he claims.  I
tried this.  I might not be doing the test right, but the ear was
unripe.  I also have tried splitting the husk near the silk to see the
ear to see if the kernels were ripe.  They weren't.  Raymond claims
that doing this allows bugs to get into the ear.  That does work; the
bugs have gotten into the ears where I've split the husk.

Does anyone have a fool-proof test?  Is the silk completely brown?
Does the size of the ear tell you anything?  Any way to hasten
ripening?
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--Seth Alford
Tektronix Walker Road
PO Box 4600
MS 92-823
Beaverton OR 97075
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