Craig Sailor is the Arts & Entertainment editor at The News Tribune. Last year he planted his first vegetable garden. Focusing on unusual varieties, “Freak of Nature” returns for 2008 with a new crop of uncommon vegetables and flowers. This year he’ll try yin yang beans, giant pumpkins, blue poppies and mutant sunflowers. He gardens at his North End Tacoma home and sneaks seeds in to his mother’s garden at Willapa Bay when she’s not looking. E-mail him at craig.sailor@thenewstribune.com.
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"Starting seeds, dreading weeds."
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A Gardening Blog
Tuesday, August 26th, 2008
Posted by Craig Sailor @ 04:57:57 pm

I harvested my first corn last night. This is the first time I've grown edible corn (last year was Indian corn) and I cradled it like a proud parent.
And then I ate it.
I can report that Territorial Seed Company's Bon Appetit Hybrid is excellent. The white and yellow ear (I only plucked one from a stalk that had fallen over in our recent storms) was fully developed.
I grew my very small patch close together in my alley. Some of the stalks got overshadowed by bigger ones but I think that helped the pollination.
Categories: Vegetables
