RE: [gardeners] Outsmarting Coons (not)
Seyfried,Alice (gardeners@globalgarden.com)
Wed, 19 Aug 1998 16:12:08 -0400
Really??? I wonder why they never thought of that? They've had a
garden for probably the last 40 years, and a big one at that (about 1/4
- 1/3 acre). My father-in-law is what I would call an "expert" on
veggie gardens. I can't imagine he didn't know. Maybe they don't like
their corn to be "corny".
Alice
seyfried@oclc.org
> -----Original Message-----
> From: George Shirley [SMTP:gshirley@iamerica.net]
> Sent: Wednesday, August 19, 1998 10:24 AM
> To: gardeners@globalgarden.com
> Subject: RE: [gardeners] Outsmarting Coons (not)
>
> At 09:02 AM 8/19/98 -0400, you wrote:
> >Hey, it was worth a shot! If she hadn't planted her corn, then there
> >would've been no suspense to see whose they got. I hope she gave you
> >some of hers.
> >
> >My in-laws had the same philosophy as you. They live right next to a
> >farmer's corn field and could never understand why the coons went for
> >their little tiny plot of sweet corn when they could have an entire
> >field of field corn. I said to them several times, "would you eat
> >cardboard when you can have chocolate?". Never sunk in.
> >
> >Alice
> >seyfried@oclc.org
> Good Grief Alice. Tell your in-laws to get the next door field corn as
> it
> first ripens. Most of it is delicious as roasting ears at that stage.
> Not
> like the specially bred hybrid sweet corns but with a real corn
> flavor.
>
> George