Since there is no "real" corn here, also known as the sweet, juicy stuff you get in the states, only hard, bland maiz, Dan's dad brought some corn seeds from the states for us to plant. He and Dan worked hard to plant it and we've been tending it in eager anticipation of eating our favorite summer crop soon. Unfortunately we've discovered the rain forest doesn't get enough continuous sun to provide the light and heat our corn needs. Sitting almost on the equator, we have daylight only from 6 to 6:30 every day, and most days it rains somewhere in there. This is very different from the sunlight hours of 5 to 9 we got in Idaho during the summer.
Today we harvested our first ear of corn, which was pathetically small, but it does look like the real deal and the four of us will relish our one piece for dinner tonight.
Jael in our corn "field"
We've never seen corn ears grow right out of the ground, but the stalks are so short that is what is happening.
Dan with our bumper crop of corn.
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