A week ago the corn in my garden was doing great! They were not only knee high by the fourth of July…..they were going to be shoulder high!

Then a pop up rain & windstorm came and knocked down eighty percent of my corn right down to the ground.

My first thought was, that’s it!  It’s over! My corn is going to die and all that hard work of planting and weeding was wasted.

My second thought was, I not going to give up that easy!

So, after the rain stopped I went out to my garden and gently picked up the corn. Unfortunately it wouldn’t stay up on its own it kept flopping down.

I decided to run a string line attached from one side of the fence to the other on both sides of the corn. This kept the corn upright but still leaning. Then I went to the garden store and bought a bag of soil to build up the area around the base of the stalk.

 This seems to be working for now. I guess the test will come with the next windstorm.