Filing Cabinet Corn

Now I'm sure you are wondering what a filing cabinet has to do with corn? Well, in our case it's our container in which we grow our corn since we only have a tiny patio. I have lugged this vintage metal filing cabinet around with me for five moves and there isn't enough room in our most recent residence. I simply took out the drawers and drilled a few drainage holes and A LOT of organic soil to create this planter.

Our corn is almost ready to harvest and since we are first time corn growers we wanted to make sure that we didn't pick it too soon. Through our research we came across this fun corn fact. A fact that farmers already know, to be sure, but it's not such common knowledge to non-farmers and beginner farmers.