We got rain!

[DianaB]

Your garden and yard will love that rain!! I bet you could almost hear the rain being soaked up!!!

Did you know that sometimes you can hear corn grow when it gets rain? I've heard that but have never experienced that for myself.

[judy]

Originally Posted by DianaB

Your garden and yard will love that rain!! I bet you could almost hear the rain being soaked up!!!

Did you know that sometimes you can hear corn grow when it gets rain? I've heard that but have never experienced that for myself.

The Sound of Corn Growing

Farming legends suggest that one can hear corn growing, especially at night, with distinctive popping sounds. These popping sounds actually do occur, but David G. Browning of the University of Rhode Island attributes them to something different than suggested by legend: puffs of wind during otherwise calm conditions cause adjacent leaves to strike each other, producing in many cases a distinctive spectrum of sounds. The sound spectrum changes as the corn matures (the increased weight of the corn ears causes the stalks to sway more pronouncedly) and as it loses moisture (the leaves become more brittle). Browning says that the "sound of corn growing" can therefore be transformed from a fanciful legend into a practical tool for monitoring the condition of crops