I about got sick this morning.....

[ginnie5]

and I'm still down. I spent an hour this morning trying to prop my corn up. I went out this morning to do my morning walk thru, pull a few weeds, and pick anything that needed picking. Over half of my corn is on the ground. Looks like wind just laid it down in swatches. I have been working so hard on that garden! This corn is the best we've ever had. It usually starts making ears when its little.....this is over my head and oh the ears that are coming. It was too close together and I knew it but just hated thinning it out. Never again! So I've put out stakes and tried tieing it up as much as possible. After two nights of rain though the ground is so wet even the stakes don't want to stay up. I couldn't find any good ones either...just little bamboo ones. I'll probably end up loosing the corn. I am counting on this garden feeding us this winter so this hurts!

[huzzyjr]

The corn will stand back up soon on its own.

[Tracy Rimmer]

Ginnie, sometimes, if it's been laid down in a rainstorm, it will prop itself back up -- depends on how far along it is. Just leave it alone -- if the sun comes out, it's entirely possible it will be fine.

[ginnie5]

well I'm praying then! Some of it is broken so I went ahead and pulled it out. We never plant corn because we never have good luck with it. We've both been tickled pink with it till this....

[margo]

It has happened here too. and it has righted itself. Wouldnt have believed it would if we had'nt seen it. All may not be lost. hang in there

[beccachow]

It wants to be upright towards the sun, so unless you have some alien induced crop circles, it should right itself.

[anniew]

and if it doesn't, then plant something else to take the place of your winter corn.

[salmonslayer]

We had half ours blow down last year in a big storm and like you we were sick because it was a beautiful patch and our first year of ever growing it. We proped it up best we could with stakes and string and you know it was fine. We got 393 viable ears and about 150 ears we used for the animals. Dont be too discouraged.

[Harry Chickpea]

Corn wouldn't be corn if it didn't have a way of coping. Remember the parable about the mightly oak and the grass?

[Ravenlost]

Seems like this happens to us every year. This year we planted the corn patch on the east side of my garden shed to help shelter it some. Still, I was out late yesterday trying to prop up some that had gotten blown down. Unfortunately, we didn't get any rain with the wind so I was finding it nearly impossible to prop it up with such dry dirt (did use the waterhose finally).

I sure hope your corn survives and you get a good crop!

[nodak3]

When ours blows down it doesn't right itself, but still produces just fine.

We call it corn vines when that happens.

[Sherrynboo]

Mine got knocked down a few days ago. What we did was put a stake at the ends of each row, ran wire down the row and tied the corn onto it with hay strings. It does stretch the wire some so it may have to be propped in places but it holds it up pretty well. Went through the same thing last year and had to tackle it alone as hubby was out of town. Sometimes I wonder if it is even worth the trouble when you can buy it on sale during the peak of the season.

Sherry in GA