This year I decided to start my corn inside the house to give them a head start instead of planting the kernels outside in the garden like I usually did. I figured that would increase my chances of actually getting some ears of corn this summer. I must have started the corn too soon, because they grew too quickly in the house, and I felt pressured to plant them in the ground before they got too big.
Transplanting the corn in the ground didn’t really work out very well for me. The spring weather remained cooler than the corn preferred and then on Wednesday night we got a frost. I saw that the nighttime temperature was due to dip below freezing, so I did cover my corn plants with a plastic sheet to protect them from the cold, but they still suffered. Above you can see how forlorn my corn plants now look.
On the positive side, that cold temperature did give me some the nice photos of mist on the pond that I showed you yesterday, and below is a shot of a frosted Lupine that I also took. It got so cold that the drops of water that were nestled in the center of the Lupine foliage even froze.
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