Wow. Streuth. Cor. Ooo er missus. (Best stop there, my parents read this blog …)

I planted two blocks of sweetcorn (Northern Extra Sweet F1). The badgers got all the ones in the veg plot, but never found the block near the house. We picked the first ones tonight, boiled them for a few minutes and ate them on their own, glistening with butter and black pepper. And they are just wonderful – sweet, meltingly soft but crisp too, and none of that annoying skins-between-the teeth chaff. They’ve shot straight into my top ten of joyous food experiences and I swear I shall never bother buying corn on the cob in a shop again.

The future’s yellow, the future’s homegrown sweetcorn.

September 6, 2009