The beauty of just pick strawberry popcorn .
This hebdomad was popcorn harvesting time at the farm ! We have waited all year for our footling crop to grow and be ready – and as the stalk set about to turn dark-brown – it was finally metre for pick !
Popcorn is one of our best-loved collation at the house – and there is nothing good than crop up your own house - grown stash ! Popcorn is really incredibly healthy for you . No , we ’re not talking about the form coated in fake butter , salt – and kill in bags in a microwave .
The beauty of just picked strawberry popcorn.
Zea mays everta ears drying on the stalks – and ready to be picked .
What we love to feed is utter all - natural popcorn – which we protrude in a kitchen range - top wok ( with a lid of course 🙂 ) , with just a simple tablespoon of excess vestal olive rock oil . You could also just as well pop in an air popper if you have one – but either way – you end up with a majuscule collation that is high in fiber and downhearted in calories . The taste of true home base grown Zea mays everta ca n’t be all in !
There are so many varieties of Zea mays everta to choose from – but all in all – grow any of them is much like growing your own sweet clavus – with the exclusion they stay on the stalk a little longer to mature into hard popping nitty-gritty .
Popcorn ears drying on the stalks – and ready to be picked.
Zea mays everta ears developing in mid - summer
We mature an heirloom variety called Strawberry popcorn – which produces anywhere from 2 to 4 miniature 3 to 5″ cobs with bright strawberry cerise kernels on each stalk . The still hunt of Strawberry maize are on the small sizing as well – growing anywhere from 3 to 5′ tall to maturity . That size of it mould well for us – as we actually constitute our popcorn seed by tuck it into one of our landscape painting beds that are filled with decorative forage and pepper . It coalesce in well with the marvelous forage and adds a litle surplus dimension and beauty to the bed space . It has become one of our favored things to do in all of our flower beds around the farm – interspersing the beauty of annual and perennial bloom with pepper and other food crops that can also feast us .
In addition – the strawberry corn can be used for drop decorations , and then shelled afterwards for usage – making it a great dual use plant !
Popcorn ears developing in mid-summer
strawberry mark Zea mays everta is a corking dual use plant – it can be used for fall decorations and as a with child popcorn later !
You begin by sow seed in mid to late fountain , let the stalk and subsequent ears that develop to become plump and mature . We leave our ears on until betimes to mid September , or until the angry walk and leaves begin to fade and turn browned . ( For us , it should be early September , but with our wet and cooler summer this year – we just now picked our ears ) .
After blame – we lease our pinna dry out out for a few week in the barn by hanging up or set on an former screen to bring around . As shortly as the sum become dry and hard and fall of the cob with a small push of your finger – they are ready to pop !
Strawberry popcorn is a great dual use plant – it can be used for fall decorations and as a great popcorn later!
you’re able to stack away the edible corn in mason jars or any sealed container – and they will keep long enough on the shelf until your next hatful of Zea mays everta is quick the following free fall !
Happy Gardening ! – Jim and Mary
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