Featured Recipes: • Creamy Fresh Succotash • Sweet Corn Chowder with Tarragon and Applewood Smoked Bacon Gardening Tips: Winning the Corn Olympics Corn is easily grown by sowing it directly into the ground. This is the simplest, most logical way to grow corn. But if you're in a race to be the first in your neighborhood with sweet corn, try this trick. Since corn needs a much warmer temperature to germinate than it does to grow, start the seeds indoors and then transplant them into the garden the minute you see the sprouts emerge. This must be done immediately, since the little seedlings grow quickly and can easily become potbound. Space Saver In July or August, after the corn crop is well on its way toward harvest time, set out some broccoli transplants in between the rows. The shade cast by the cornstalks will help keep the broccoli from going to seed in hot weather. After the corn has been picked, cut the stalks down and turn the space over to the broccoli, which will bear a nice fall crop. A bean crop would work also, but choose a bush variety. Vining beans will climb all over the corn plants and fell them like timber. Cooking Tip: Uncanny Creamed Corn Why do most people think creamed corn always comes in a can? You’ll never touch that sweet, gummy stuff again after you’ve tried creaming fresh corn. Just cut the kernels off the cob and simmer them in cream until the kernels are cooked and the cream has reduced and thickened. No sugar needed!