We Never Had To Label Corn

We used to label our Iowa garden at the end of the rows with seed packets. We would plant the row first, sprinkiing the teensy seeds and covering them. Then we would nail the seed packet to the stake at the end of the row. Like little soldiers we saw peas packets, carrot packets, radish packets. Lettuice packets, potato packets, green bean packets, rows and rows of them. Mom always threw in two rows of flowers - usually marigolds and zinnias. Dad rolled his eyes, but I think he liked them too; we kids did also. Our table always had fresh vegetables, berries and mushrooms from nature. The rest of the field next to the garden was left to plant corn. Big juicy corn. We lived in Iowa, so we never had to label corn; everyone recognized it.