The Cornfield

It turned out to be a sunny afternoon yesterday. Still there was water standing in the field behind our house. Here is the cornfield. (That's not our house in the background).

The farmer planted the corn under plastic covers again this year. He prepared the ground and planted the corn. Then he stuck bamboo poles one at a time into the ground on one side of the corn rows. He bent the poles over to the other side of the rows and stuck the ends into the ground. Then he rolled and tied plastic over the poles. The corn grew up through a hole in the top. Then he put straw mats between the rows. I took this picture of the straw mats at our local hardware store.



Two years ago, he lost his whole crop from high winds. It was all bent and twisted around. Last year he planted it this way and it worked. The corn made it through high winds. We haven't had any high winds yet this year. He sells his crops to shops. We sometimes buy things from him over our fence.