Farm Updates

April 19, 2026 - We are in full swing at the farm. We would like the temperatures to stabilize.  As of April 22nd, we are open daily from 10am - 5pm at our greenhouses in East Dubuque.  We will be offering hanging flower baskets and tomato baskets, bedding plants, fresh asparagus, and rhubarb. We will be opening at our JFK Rd. location in early May. Dubuque Farmers' Market begins on May 2nd.  We plan to open at our Blain's Farm & Fleet location in late June or early July. 

2025 Sweet Corn began on July 3rd and ended on October 2nd.  2024 Sweet Corn began on July 5th and ended on September 30th.  We begin planting sweet corn as soon as weather conditions and soil temperatures permits us.  Once we start planting each season, we must continuously plant roughly every 5 days, through mid July.  When we start harvesting, we only have a small window of time to pick the sweet corn once it reaches maturity.  If we harvest too soon, the kernals may not be as plump or as juicy, and may not have its full sweetness.  If we harvest too late, the kernals are not as tender and the sugars begin to change to starch, resulting in a chewier texture that is not as sweet.  We pick out of each section of planting for roughly 3-5 days.  We plant about 16-20 times each season, so that we can harvest corn for around 3 months.  It is difficult to exactly predict the beginning and last days of corn, as the speed of growth is very much weather dependent, despite our best efforts.  During the last 10 years, our sweet corn has begun between July 3rd and July 14.  Our earliest ever start to our sweet corn season was on June 24, 2012.  The timing of our first sweet corn date depends completely on the weather in the early growing season.  Our sweet corn typically ends in mid-late September, all weather dependent.  We have typically planted our first sweet corn between April 1st - April 22th.