My parents had a house with a massive backyard which they turned into a huge garden and I remember as a kid harvesting sweet corn the old way: walking down the rows and yanking the ears off and dropping them into a large sack. Every year we’d have such a large crop that, even with 7 kids, there was just too much corn so my folks would just give it away to relatives and friends and neighbors. My parents never bothered to try to sell the surplus as it wasn’t large enough to sell to some farm coop and/or to go through the hassle of setting up a road stand.
We, in Mansehra, KPK, Pakistan, harvest this particular maze crop for past few years but, on very small scale, because, we do not consider it a cash crop. Instead of maze crop and rice, we prefer to harvest veg and Virginia tobacco as both are more profitable.
I loved farming vegetables. Very back braking work. Alot of aches and pains after over 30 years. I may have gone home with the aches and pains but today I am happy that I did it all those years. It was very rewarding work. I earnd my paycheck.
I once heard that sweet corn derived from excess cane sugars being tilled back into the land and water before and whilst corn was harvested ? Interesting right – would red water turn corn red ? With red soil ?
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