Rainy season ideas: ⑦ corn picking

Rainy season brings the start of corn season in a lot of areas of Japan, including my own area of Saitama Prefecture. Some places that grow corn also offer you the chance to pick your own corn. Corn picking is done quite differently to say strawberry or blueberry picking. Generally, the system for vegetable picking / digging is different to fruit picking. 

The corn pictured in this post is at a fruit farm. As such, there main business is fruit, specifically blueberry, picking. But they offer people the opportunity to pick corn too. As they don't have a huge amount of corn, they limit corn picking to Saturdays and Sundays only and for the month of June only. I find this is quite common in this area of Saitama Prefecture. 

Unlike fruit picking where you pay an entry fee and then a certain price per weight, corn picking is usually just a flat charge per corn cob. So if you are only picking one or two corn, its quite a short experience too! But its always nice to pick your own fruit or vegetables, and kids really enjoy these type of experiences too. 

Have you ever picked corn in Japan?