Chest High By The 4th of July

Our corn was knee high by June 14th but that doesn't have much of a ring to it.  Ears are starting to come in on our early corn and the other types are growing well too.  Apparently we have done something right with the soil in the corn field because most of the stalks are growing one or more shooters.  I think we are going to leave the shooters on instead of taking them off, just to see how well they do.  Maybe they will grow ears too!

Another piece of good news about the corn field is that it now has micro-irrigation!  Kenn installed it a few weeks back (as well as in the main garden area) and it has saved us a ton of time with watering.

Corn Field

As for the rest of the garden, things are going mostly pretty well.  The unseasonable heat has caused some of the lettuce to bolt and some of our cooler weather crops aren't so happy but at least the tomatillos and tomatoes are loving it.  In fact, most of them have outgrown their typical large pots on the deck for the first time.  To mitigate the problem we ended up creating a little tomato forest in front of the chicken run since that specific spot in the yard gets fantastic sunlight throughout the day.  We still have nine tomatillo and tomato plants in pots on the deck to add to the forest but they aren't in dire need of being put into the ground just yet.

Tomato Forest