02-12-2017, 03:45 AM
The taste of the corn was without compare. Corn tastes best straight off the plant. Most supermarket corn "on the cob" are varieties that were bred for only one thing: shelf life. Not flavor. Can't speculate on the cost as that is amortized over the course of many seasons. If the pot and dirt cost $20 and we get 10 ears out of it the first season it's $2.00/ear. But there are 4-6 corn seasons a year. Hopefully the pot lasts a few years. In theory the cost should go down to pennies per ear. We have a lot of experiments in our future using the abundant natural fertilizer our farm produces.
We didn't have any problems with pests (except for our donkey who ate all the leaves that grew through the fence) but pests can be a problem here. There are some cultivars with tight husks that have been developed specifically for Hawaii's climate and pests: http://www.ctahr.hawaii.edu/oc/freepubs/pdf/HGV-4.pdf
We didn't have any problems with pests (except for our donkey who ate all the leaves that grew through the fence) but pests can be a problem here. There are some cultivars with tight husks that have been developed specifically for Hawaii's climate and pests: http://www.ctahr.hawaii.edu/oc/freepubs/pdf/HGV-4.pdf