06-26-2020, 05:18 AM
Most of the non-supersweet corn is still quite good and sweet so long as it's picked as soon as its ripe and eaten the same day. Or freeze it. The main difference is how long the sugars take to turn into starch. With supersweet it's a slow process so the corn is good even if its a little past ripe or not eaten right away. With a faster-to-starch variety even the difference between picking in the morning or the evening on the day its ripened can make a difference.
I've never heard of trying to attract cats to a garden. Most people do everything they can to keep their gardens from becoming a litter box. Personally I prefer rats, because people don't bring out their torches and pitchforks when you discuss the best way to kill them. We actively operate about a half dozen rat bait stations around our house and growing areas. They keep the population controlled but they never really go away. Our dogs get a few too and every now and then we'll catch a live one in a mongoose trap. Not only do the mongoose steal chicken eggs, they attack the chickens. When they kill one they don't even bother trying to eat it. It's like they killed them for fun. A mongoose went after our geese once. Unfortunately when I got out there the skirmish was over so I didn't get to see it. I heard a lot of geese honking excitedly and a mongoose screaming like it was getting killed. None of our geese were injured.
It must have learned lesson because it never happened again.
I've never heard of trying to attract cats to a garden. Most people do everything they can to keep their gardens from becoming a litter box. Personally I prefer rats, because people don't bring out their torches and pitchforks when you discuss the best way to kill them. We actively operate about a half dozen rat bait stations around our house and growing areas. They keep the population controlled but they never really go away. Our dogs get a few too and every now and then we'll catch a live one in a mongoose trap. Not only do the mongoose steal chicken eggs, they attack the chickens. When they kill one they don't even bother trying to eat it. It's like they killed them for fun. A mongoose went after our geese once. Unfortunately when I got out there the skirmish was over so I didn't get to see it. I heard a lot of geese honking excitedly and a mongoose screaming like it was getting killed. None of our geese were injured.
It must have learned lesson because it never happened again.