Because I remember my mom making the cutest little arrangements with corn stalks, I thought that (prior to composting) I too would give it a try.
Probably everyone who has every made a similar gathering of stalks knows that you have to make a giant structure or else secure the stalks to something stable. Day-after-day of rain along with a tiny wind gust wilted and then toppled my meek collection.
As it turns out, my mom had a secret trick for keeping it all upright. She jams a shovel into the ground and uses that as a foundation of sorts. A shovel handle would have been far to obvious for my Oregon garden's puny (not Midwest worthy) corn harvest. Instead, I used two-foot lengths of rebar that we had on hand from dismantling our trellis frames.
Still meek and puny but not flat.
Labels: Harvest, Ta-Da
