There are some things we grow in the garden every year. The garden “staples”, the things we eat a lot of, the things that grow well here, and the things that we preserve for the winter.

Then there are some experiments in the garden each year. Things that we grow because we’re curious. They are sometimes things that don’t necessarily grow the best where we are, but we want to try them anyway. Things like sweet potatoes, for instance, and watermelon (we haven’t given up on that yet.)

Growing corn was not really an “experiment”, we’ve grown it in the garden plenty of times before. We don’t grow it every year, though, because we have limited space and limited sun, so we usually devote that growing space to other things.

Honestly, corn doesn’t grow the best in our little garden spot, but we like to grow it from time to time anyway. These pictures were from corn that we grew in last year’s garden. Jeff and B saw so many beautiful, colorful varieties and wanted to give them a try.

That blue corn? So gorgeous. The variety is called Hopi Turquoise, said to originate from the Hopi people. We’re not remembering the other corn varieties that we grew, but we sure did enjoy growing all the colorful corn.

B was curious about “popping” some of the corn for popcorn. Just for fun, we took some of our homegrown corn and put it in the popcorn popper. It didn’t work. Good to know. None of the varieties we grew were for that purpose specifically, they were for eating fresh or grinding into corn flour.

I think this about sums up what I was going to share with you here about garden posts for the year. It will be fun to see what new things we’ll try in the garden next year!