As I’ve mentioned, the weeds have gotten slightly out of control recently. Much to my surprise, what I had originally thought was some kind of crab grass or whatever turns out to be CORN! I first noticed it in the alleyway between our garage and the neighbor’s fence. This area doesn’t get a ton of sun, so I’m really surprised that corn was able to germinate here.
If I hadn’t noticed the ears with tassles, I probably wouldn’t have realized what it was.
Not only is there corn volunteering in that alleyway garden, there’s more in the driveway-side garden, and some in the front yard! All of the corn volunteers are really small and I doubt the ears will really develop into anything edible, but I’m going to let the ones that aren’t in the front yard keep growing to see what happens. Just when I was telling K about this weird happenstance, he noticed a squirrel running by carrying an ear of corn!
Tim and I planted corn at our community garden plot a long time ago. It grew, but it got completely infested with weird-ass insects. It probably attracted all the weird-ass insects that are repelled by Roundup Ready corn or whatever they grow in the fields around here.
I remember grabbing at one of the ears and saying “Look! We have corn!” and then noticing all of the insects and realizing that this corn was not for me to eat.
Wow, how disappointing! I bet you’re right about the insects. That Roundup stuff is scary! I’ve had pretty good luck with corn in past years – but of course I planted it on purpose before.