RE: [gardeners] Another corn newbie question
Seyfried,Alice (gardeners@globalgarden.com)
Wed, 19 Aug 1998 08:50:02 -0400
What a wonderful idea!! I LOVE it!
Off to KMart I go for packing tape....
Alice
seyfried@oclc.org
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Margaret Lauterbach [SMTP:mlaute@micron.net]
> Sent: Tuesday, August 18, 1998 5:14 PM
> To: gardeners@globalgarden.com
> Subject: RE: [gardeners] Another corn newbie question
>
> At 03:47 PM 8/18/98 -0400, you wrote:
> >All right, nobody likes a smarta**, Cynthia! :) :) My father-in-law
> is
> >waiting patiently with an "I told you so" to see if I can beat the
> >racoons (something he failed at for about 6 years before he gave up
> >growing corn).
> >
> >Alice
> >seyfried@oclc.org
> >
> Alice, I think they pick it before they eat it. If they can't pick
> it....ahem. I've read hints to take a packing tape dispenser (the
> hand-held dispenser of 2 inch wide scotch tape stuff), and take a turn
> around the ear then around the stalk, taping ear to stalk. Ha! Take
> that,
> rackety coon! If you have 80 acres of corn, it would be too labor
> intensive to do this. But to squelch an "I-told-you-so inlaw," it's
> worth
> quite a bit of that labor. Margaret