Indeed, exelent polination. Its a problem with small plot growing.
Right one might be a bit young but still ok. Just a tip, its best to eat it in the window of a few hours after picking. They contain an enzime that will convert the sugars to starch after its picked and then you end up with a rather sad tasting cob.
Edit: this is sweet corn right? On second look it seemed to me it might not be. Above stands mostly for sweet corn
Yes, itâs sweet corn, will try to remember this, the wife picked these yesterday, but I thought they were good anyway, but have never eaten them fresh.
The one on the left is too old by our normal standard. The one on the right is About right. They yellow in the pot. But the hulls get tougher and it isnt as sweet when it is older⌠some people like it that way though.
As mentioned it is best to eat fresh as possible.
It pollinated just fine.
I am wondering if I am doing something wrong, the brussels sprouts are growing well but not making heads, is it too early, or is there something missing in the soil?
I have the same thing with broccoli. Grew great and then what little crowns they made went right to seed. I have never had real good results from broccoli. Never fist size crowns. Usually more like tennis ball size. I would have been happy with that this year. Iâll replant for the fall and see what happens. Actually time to get a lot of fall crops going but working on the gasifier is more interesting right now. I need to get my ass in gear.
Looks good to me, but with this horrible summer it will take longer to turn red?
If you look at the stems they have bent and almost come off, could it be too much water, I did drip irrigation, and maybe it is too easy for the wife to water with?
Could it be not enough wind? Not sturdy enough stems, although the main stem looks rigidâŚ
Itâs in the greenhouse, and she usually only has the door slightly open, donât think so, havenât experienced this before, not so many anyway.
Could it be getting too much nitrogen?
It almost looks like early signs of a fusarium type of wilt or another infection, the way the leaves are crinkling.
I am trying to determine whether the yellow leaves on my tomatoes is from fusarium or nitrogen or other nutrient shortage so I am a little bias.
yours may have a calcium deficiency, without enough the stems get brittle.
Hello, Jan!
Any chance some of Godâs more annoying creatures are finding their way into the greenhouse? We have ground hogs ( Marmota monax), and they will go up on their hind legs and pull down branches searching for tasty morsels. (blossoms?)
Just a thought, especially one of the pictures shows a broken, not just wilted stem. 
The very end of that same stem looks chewed off, as well. 
I do not think so. I donât have such animals here, it looks more like the tomato bunches are too heavy, so they tear the stem, or bend it.
I got them too! The little bastards do the same with my bush beans - all the tops are chewed off. I didnât think they could reach up that high. I just set my live trap to see if I could catch him - hope it is not a her with babies.
I have not caught any yet, The ones living at my place are so tame, they live their lives within easy observation range. My Mom-in-law uses raw potatoes, other veg. to lure them into live traps. I really need to address the pests and weeds; they are taking over. (We donât have a dog, or enough timeâŚ) 
The cats just sit by and watch the show!
My family, when i was a kid, had a standard size Schnauzer dog. That dog, Lisa, would run and kill any groundhog she spotted. It was over quickly, and she never lost a battle. Kind of gruesome, actually. That was many decades ago. 
They are very sensitive to smell, and they like tender shoots like carrot tops and fresh lettuce. You have to handle the cage and bait with gloves, and hide the cage in a bush or cover with brush. and throw some stuff in the bottom because they donât like metal. It is kind of a pain. high velocity projectiles work well, but you have to be downwind, walk silent like an indian, and make sure your path doesnât include anything important behind it, which can also be near impossible.
If you just want to chase them away, pelletized lime works, but they multiplyâŚ
S.U.
Took a couple days off from the garden because the weather is hot and super humid and I wanted to play with the new gasifier. Went down this morning to fertilize and find that the little bit of early blight I noticed before is spreading badly. So sad. I have tried treating it with fungicides before without any good result. Just leaves affected so far but the plants were just starting to put on a lot of fruit. Seems confined to one area so far and no tomatoes were planted there for maybe 5 years so I donât think it came from the soil. This is why I try and stay two years ahead on stored foods that I grow and also why I want to quit growing in uncontrollable environments. If this years crop fails itâs pretty much a shoulder shrugger for me. Win some, Lose some, but if I were a market gardener this would be catastrophic.
Is it leaf mold that you got?
I noticed blight on the potatoes a little over a week ago, a handful of spots on pretty much all plants and that is the earliest blight I ever had but it does not seem to get any worse.
A couple of weeks ago I was saying that this summer was very normal for here, warm and not much rain so this should perhaps be a first without blight⌠sigh
Now I am just hoping that the blight doesnât catch the wind and jumps to the tomatoes in the hydroponic greenhouse, itâs not that far.
