This was a first. They chewed the corn stalk off at the base. Granted it's super sweet.......but even with that, they usually wait for the ears to fill.

Wasn't it Mayor Bloomberg that said farming was easy? Throw some seed on the ground and stand back? Not so with sweet corn....at least not for me.

Plant it one day and get 3 inches of rain the next. Get half a stand. Wait a couple weeks and plant another row or two. Get 6 to 8 inches of rain in 6 days time......including one inland tropical storm. Get NO stand from that....till it all up and start over. 3rd planting was looking OK until yesterday......hope it doesn't drown.

Get past that and a summer popup shower dumps an inch of rain in 10 minutes.....complete with 50 mph straight line winds to knock half stand from 1st planting that survived flat.

And if you somehow prevail over that......the coons are waiting to clean up what the ear worms don't get.

Mayor Mike must be farming somewhere else.

wife planted 3 rows of sweet corn one year..it was doing GREAT... get up to harvest  and arrrrgh.. dang coons nibbled of EVERY cob, boy was she MAD !!

After that we bought from farmer up the road, a bushel bag for $10 ?....

Don't do spuds no either... darn potato bugs hop over and get the tomatoes.....

Yeah the mayor, he made light of manufacturing also, so I personally took a double hit.

I don't think he apologized for those remarks.  He is in the media business (Bloomberg Media), so maybe fake like the others. Future Trivia question, who ran for president in 2020- huh, Bloomberg who?  I felt like he was personally singling me out, the farmer-machinist "loser".

So the last improvement to my garden fence was to extent it to 8ft to keep the deer out.

Still the occasional Canada geese aerial attack. Snack and take off. I can see where a few snapping turtle "tanks" were turned back. Groundhog got in, at the gate, adding plastic conduit roller sweeps. Jap beetles were munching on the corn leaves, sprayed. I hope no life/family/work business takes my eye off the corn's ear worm spraying duty.

I would not have thought coons would do that either, but it was coon tracks in the soft mud.

I know to a coon, that super sweet stuff is more addictive than crystal meth, but normally they wait for the ears. This was a new twist.

Once all the staggered plantings are in, the entire patch will be surrounded by a super hot gauntlet of electric fence. But these jerks have jumped the gun. Sooners?

Walk into Home depot around Halloween and be harassed by all sorts of inexpensive

animated ghosts, witches and such. Why cant they make a wolf or cougar that growls and moves a little to scare off the deer and pests. Instead I see 2d  cutouts or bobble head owls and other ineffective devices.

When it actually comes time sweet corn to set ears......I always have good luck keeping them at bay with two low wires hooked to my 30 mile electric fence charger. Have a funny trail cam video of one getting lit up.

And if that fails, cage traps, dog proof traps and coil spring traps will thin the herd.

BTW, as per University trials, Vision Super Sweet that I plant is A#1 first choice of coons. They consider coons to be the best taste testers. If they plant 30 varieties, they say coons will focus on Vision. It is pretty good stuff.