Frankenstein Corn

Sweet corn, one of my most favorite things to come out of a garden. I was so excited to plant my corn, even more excited when it started to sprout. Then, I realized my garden just wasn't the place for my corn. It couldn't grow down into the hard ground far enough to get roots deep enough to support it. So...I kind of water my corn each night, but I kind of feel like its not worth it.

Today, I decided to finally pick the two ears of corn that actually developed and I was downright frightened when I saw what was waiting for me.



What in the devil is this????? It isn't apparent in the picture, but those pieces of corn that look semi-normal, are actually double the normal size of corn and the rest are these tiny little pieces of corn that haven't even started developing. The whole thing was very weird, I felt like I had been a mad scientist in planting the poor little things.

Even crazier? My neighbor's corn stands over six feet tall and is giving her enough ears of corn to eat corn every night. I guess that's the difference between one bag of nutrimulch and $300 worth of manure.