knee-high to a grasshopper
Knee high to what, the adage does not record. So I’m going to call that good. It’ll all fall over and fail to pollinate anyway, so I don’t know why I bother…
A happy Independence Day to all my US readers. And a happy celebration of the day English colonialists beat German mercenaries to everyone else.
Sorry to see your corn isn’t taking hold. Here in Iowa the corn is head high in many places and we’ll be serving fresh corn on the cobb for dinner tonight. Love from the Iowa Beech House
I hope it will help you to know, that my sweetcorn looks identical to yours. And it is being rudely lolled all over by gangly potato plants. The thing that really bothers me, is that the farmer’s corn down the road is chin high already and was planted at the same time. But I reckon he cheated, somehow.
Hi Joey – lovely to hear from you. I’m sure Scottish corn will never match Iowan but we’ll see, we might get an ear or two by September…
Emma – oh good! I’m not alone then…
My sweetcorn is doing little better.
Sorry to hear that!
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