I’m so busy at the moment I’m having a very hard time getting everything done. We are still having lots of rain. 60% today, 50% tonight, 40% tomorrow and so it goes. Everything is so wet we are not having to do lots of irrigation. Only the corn (it’s hard-dent corn, the kind perfect for corn meal or animal feed) and the alfalfa (if and when we can get it cut and baled and stacked) will need one more irrigation. Then we will be done for the year.
Boy, has this growing season ever zipped by!
Linda
Life on a Colorado Farm 
Hi Linda, Is there a difference in what sweet corn looks like when looking at the stalks –when compared to ‘field’ corn (which is grown for other reasons)???? It all looks alike when driving by a corn field —but I’m sure the planters know which is which… I am SO enjoying the sweet corn from your area.
Hugs,
Betsy
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done
wow…how did that go so fast
easy for me to say…I don’t do all that work (o:
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yikes
if you get a comment from Tyson…it is me…grammy
sharing MY computer with the son (o:
Can’t believe your season is almost over (o:
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Could we ever use some of your rainy weather! It is so dry and dusty here. Our grass has turned brown and crispy and the leaves falling from the trees. Well, I’m sure you are familiar with the farmer’s motto “when the sun shines make hay”!
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We’ll have sweet corn and tomatoes through October 15, bell peppers until the first frost or until they just get tired of picking them and plow them under. Sometimes they’ve sold the last of the bell peppers right after Thanksgiving, when they start selling Christmas trees. Well, they’re red and green, so I guess that makes them seasonal.
It’s always a relief, on one hand, when the last crops are in. On the other hand winter has its own problems, doesn’t it? In our area it’s always potential flooding. The pictures from Pakistan have me dreading winter.
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Hope the rain holds off for the hay cutting/baling.
Daryl gets to do 3rd cutting by himself unless I can get Dirk dispatched out there to help!! Boys start school Wed. And I cant help like I did the past 2 yrs.
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I love the perspective you got with that photo. It’s so intimate with the act of farming – a sight only a farmer would see. Thank you.
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The other day I had to go down to the Queen Creek area of Phoenix to work in an office for the day. It’s way south of where I live and quite agricultural. As I was getting into that area, I started to smell alfalfa. Took me back to the farm so fast. They were baling hay there. Never was there a more wonderful smell.
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I agree. Even I think it´s really gone by quickly. I think plants grow faster where you live… 🙂
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Hello Linda! Your header photo just says, “true farming.” It’s all there, the fields, the implements, and the love of the land.” Your corn looks great. Hope the weather cooperates for your harvests. Glad the rain is saving you time in irrigation. Hope it will also help out and not soak up the alfalfa fields when they are primed and ready to cut.
I remember running down those corn rows so high they were like a forest. A real danger of a kid getting lost in a large field.
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Yikes…it sounds like you’re almost ready for winter!
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