I think I"ll leave my yarrow. They are pretty in the winter, esp. against the snow and I have seen some little birds land on them. They are close to the door, so I don't know if they peck at them because they fly off as soon as they see me when I go to look. I may deadhead the others, white and one red.

maryrrf, that's a beautiful lot of produce/garden!

When my daughter and I put up a huge amount of corn we did as Bobert said, blanched then ice water and we shaved it all of the cobs, mostly because we didn't have much freezer space, but we didn't use vacuum bags. We just used zip-lock bags and it worked fine. It was DELICIOUS, esp. the white corn. We'd picked it all ourselves out at the Alcova Sweet Corn place which old Harry Eichorn grew. Sad to see he has passed on. That corn was the best!