I am filled with sadness today. You spend months dedicating yourself to tending to little lives only for them to be ripped from the Earth by evil forces.

A Raccoon got in the corn patch!!!!

Oh, the horror!

Eaten baby corn everywhere!

Corn stalks bent and destroyed by little raccoon hands

I first started my container corn back in May. By the beginning of August I was hoping to harvest some fresh Ruby Red corn. I've babied it and tended to it closely. I checked and ensured each corn silk got pollinated. I've never grown corn before and I was so excited to see each stage of growth. And now, it's all over for my first batch of corn.

I'm so angry!

Beautiful red colored sweet corn gone and all that hard work wasted

I randomly woke up last night at 4:00 AM. I got up to go to the bathroom and by chance checked out our security cameras. I have one pointed at our duck coop. I was shocked to see both a possum and a raccoon trying to get into the duck coop on the security monitor. I went outside with a light and scared them off. I was up for a while, paranoid about my ducks. The raccoon must have come back after I went to bed and got into my container garden.

Only bright side...I salvaged one.

The raccoon tried to get at this one but for some reason gave up. It was unwrapped from the husk enough that I feared bugs getting it. I picked it. It was a small corn and could have used more time growing but since it couldn't be left to grow it was big enough for eating.

The corn is suppose to be red colored. I'm not sure if it starts yellow with a tinge of red and turns more red as it grows. This one was mainly yellow with dots of red. The red color is pretty cool. I wish I could see a fully grown corn to see how they turn out color-wise.

I boiled it

Cut it off the cob and mixed it with butter

My husband and I got two mouthfuls of freshly picked corn each. My goodness it was delicious!!! I've never had corn cooked right after being picked. It was sweet and perfect. It had a crispness as you bit into it and then your mouth flooded with sweet corn and butter flavor. It was what I dreamed about all summer.

Thankfully, I staggered my seeds. I have a few more corn stalks that just now sprouted pollen and silk meaning I may get another chance at a harvest of Ruby Red. My husband planted Silver Queen corn in a different part of the yard. Hopefully, we'll get a good harvest of that. But that's my husband's project. We have separate gardens. Ruby Red corn was mine. Shame a raccoon had to get it's greedy paws on corn I worked so hard on.

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