Gypsy Jan
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How Do You Decide on a Good Elotes Vendor?
Yes, well, I am completely clueless.
[Edited on 6-8-2012 by Gypsy Jan]
“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow mindedness.”
—Mark Twain
\"La vida es dura, el corazon es puro, y cantamos hasta la madrugada.” (Life is hard, the heart is pure and we sing until dawn.)
—Kirsty MacColl, Mambo de la Luna
\"Alea iacta est.\"
—Julius Caesar
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Hook
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I have to ask. Are you guys able to get any decent corn over there?
Because until a grower formed a partnership with one of the charter boat operations over here, all we could get was field corn. In the stores, from
the street vendors, everywhere. Chewy, bland kernals, even when it was field fresh.
Then, this grower, who grows white, sweet corn for export to the US, started selling some in the charter boat office. 13 large ears for 50 pesos.
DAMN, IT'S GOOD STUFF!! Sells out quickly.
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chuckie
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I have never had GOOD corn over here, but then, I was from Kansas, and spoiled..
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DavidE
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Kandy Korn, Golden Bantam...
The experimental volunteer stand I planted is doing excellently so far. Corn needs superbly rich soil, something that is not native to most of Baja
California nor Baja California Sur. So I purchased my own soil, and added extra phosphorous and potash, the stuff corn thrives on. My volunteer stand
is an experimental cluster of corn, eight plants within a 2 foot square. If those plants can thrive while striving in fierce competition for nutrients
I am going to plant an authentic patch of 48. I will hand pollinate adjacent stalks by bending the tassel over and sprinkling the node. I am a corn
fanatic, so my plants enjoy a rich compost and manure soil with the additives. I first leach salt from the near-the-beach soil by flooding with fresh
water. The plants get sprayed every other day to remove salt from morning dew.
I found a three-ear package of fresh, not frozen corn at the La Ballena supermercado in Guerrero Negro on the 2nd of the month. About twenty two
pesos. The corn was excellent both in appearance and taste. It was labeled "Elotes Americanos". It was a super-sweet hybrid. My corn of course will be
much better. I buy seed from Iowa.
I am also putting in a patch of lettuce and Italian greens. Lots of different lettuce and more than a dozen different greens. My potatoes have taken
off and hopefully when mounded will produce a lot of spuds. I cannot find cilantro seed nor eneldo, which is dill. I did transplant some epazote for
my frijoles. My Roma tomato plants love life here in these conditions and are going to produce heavily. Everything is being raised organic and when
the inevitable in tomato moths and worms arrive they are going to find out just how much they do not like eating plants sprayed with boiled garlic
solution.
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Mexitron
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| Quote: | Originally posted by DavidE
Kandy Korn, Golden Bantam...
The experimental volunteer stand I planted is doing excellently so far. Corn needs superbly rich soil, something that is not native to most of Baja
California nor Baja California Sur. So I purchased my own soil, and added extra phosphorous and potash, the stuff corn thrives on. My volunteer stand
is an experimental cluster of corn, eight plants within a 2 foot square. If those plants can thrive while striving in fierce competition for nutrients
I am going to plant an authentic patch of 48. I will hand pollinate adjacent stalks by bending the tassel over and sprinkling the node. I am a corn
fanatic, so my plants enjoy a rich compost and manure soil with the additives. I first leach salt from the near-the-beach soil by flooding with fresh
water. The plants get sprayed every other day to remove salt from morning dew.
I found a three-ear package of fresh, not frozen corn at the La Ballena supermercado in Guerrero Negro on the 2nd of the month. About twenty two
pesos. The corn was excellent both in appearance and taste. It was labeled "Elotes Americanos". It was a super-sweet hybrid. My corn of course will be
much better. I buy seed from Iowa.
I am also putting in a patch of lettuce and Italian greens. Lots of different lettuce and more than a dozen different greens. My potatoes have taken
off and hopefully when mounded will produce a lot of spuds. I cannot find cilantro seed nor eneldo, which is dill. I did transplant some epazote for
my frijoles. My Roma tomato plants love life here in these conditions and are going to produce heavily. Everything is being raised organic and when
the inevitable in tomato moths and worms arrive they are going to find out just how much they do not like eating plants sprayed with boiled garlic
solution. |
Find coriander seed in the herb section at the market---should be viable seed.
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shari
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the only way to find a good elote stand is to watch where more people go...but mexicanos are used to what we used to call pig corn...I'm from corn
country in Ontario too and love love love tender, fresh sweet corn. Most elote stands have crappy corn but if you buy it in a cup and put all the
fixins on it, it's not too bad.
As Daveed mentioned, the supermarket in GN often has American corn which isn't too awful...barely passable as it's not real fresh.
When my husband Juan visited my family in Ontario, he just couldnt believe how amazing the sweet corn was...bought at a stand fresh picked that day!
He also wondered how many sacks of cement went into the CN Tower!
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Hook
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Mexican corn may be the best reason for using corn to produce ethanol. Eating it is certainly not a good reason.................
David E, I've grown good Olatha corn over here but now that I have a pretty regular source for good corn, I'm just not going to devote the space to
growing corn in my garden.
We're not HUGE lovers of c-o-c anyway. 2-3 times a year is plenty for us.
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