The First Corn Harvest of the Year

The day has finally came where I harvested the corn at the right time and now can enjoy there summer taste.  I had checked them during the week and waited until they were just right.  It happened to be yesterday where I went outside and started picking all the ears that were ripe and ready for the dinner table.

I collected 24 ears yesterday and they weighed about 15 pounds in total which is I think is great for the first corn crop of the season.  Some of them had some caterpillars that were eating the kernels, but other than that there was no serious damage which is also a good thing to hear.

Some pictures of the corn I gathered yesterday.

Below there are only 18 ears of corn because the other six are being cooked at the time for consumption.

They were very delicious ears and enjoyed every minute of it.  They were sweet and tender which are the two basic parts you always look to have when eating corn on the cob.

I did pick up another cucumber and zucchini as well.  This cucumber was larger than the previous one that I had and this one weighed about one and a half pounds.  It was one that had been hiding underneath some leaves and I had saw it a couple days ago and meant to pick it up, but fortunately I forgot.  When I harvested it yesterday it had grown much bigger.

I also have been harvesting Roma tomatoes, but they haven’t been ripe.  I have been picking them early and placing them on the windowsill to fully ripen.  Since they will be used primarily for sauce I don’t mind if I pick them early.

Soon I will be picking the first eggplant of the season.  It is almost ripe and it has stopped growing which means that in a few days or so it will be a perfect time to harvest it.

I also discovered that one of my eggplant plants has multiple fruits.  I didn’t notice this until just a couple of days ago.  It was definitely a surprise to me and I will have to make sure that they all grow to the appropriate size with the best care I can give it.

In the above picture you can see at least four.  There is a fifth one that I couldn’t get in the picture, but I will let you know what happens with all of them.

My cantaloupe is also coming along and it is now starting to create the webbing around the fruit which means that it has reached its full size.  This one is smaller than I would like, but I will have to make sure that I take care of them better next season.  As long as it is juicy and sweet it doesn’t matter what the size is.