And So It Begins...

Ideas are funny things.  How do ideas begin?  Is it like a bolt of inspirational lightning in the brain, or is it more like a mixture of various fairly untasty ingredients that, cooked for exactly the right time at exactly the right temperature, becomes a delicious chocolate mud cake (mmm, mud cake...)? 

You can often point to a particular moment in time and say 'that's when I had the idea', but if you really think about it, there's almost always some irritating problem that's been stewing away in the back of the brain for some time.  At least that's how it was for us.  There was definitely a moment when we decided to build a new house.  And before that there was a decision to move from our unit to a bigger block with a good sized backyard.  But before that there were four years of failed attempts at growing vegetables due to insufficient sunlight and an overabundance of starving possums. This prompted more and more 'creative' solutions, from semi successful aquaponics on the paving outside the backdoor, to discussions of a spiral staircase in the garage leading to rooftop raised vegie patches.

And so you could say that Operation Sweetcorn has been a long time coming.  But for the sake of this blog, it began last Saturday, May 14th, when we bought a house...