planted corn and beans

[COWS]

Hope i have good luck. Planted corn a little over a week ago and have had rain. It's not up yet. Went in pasture, got cow chips from where hay was fed, shoveled under some of it, ran garden tiller over all of it. Before tilling applied cottonseed meal and commercial fertilizer..shot gun approach, hoping some of it will hit the plants. We had covered the garden with leaves and raked back the leaves on 2 new rows.Applied more cow chips. Ground still wet after acouple of days, more rain threatened, so this evening I tilled the 2 rows and wife and I planted beans.

4 varieties of corn planted. 2 rows of corn prepared. First part of the 2 rows were planted in Green open pollinated corn which I first tried last year and found they made good tasting grits and corn meal(Ihave a hand grinder).

Next hybrid sweet corn (Merit) was planted, then some pencil cob corn I have had for years and have selected seed to get as yellow corn as possible, then planted more sweet corn. Idea is to have plants of different maturity to hopefull prevent cross pollination. Last at the end of the sweet corn I planted Bloody Butcher corn, since I saw pictures of corn bread made from it and want to try it out. We will see how it works out.

COWS

[julieq]

Sure hope it does well for you! We are going to plant corn on our new acreage here for the first time this year (we've lived here just over a year). We're familiar with most everything else, but corn is going to be new to us. It was in the teens last night and we're due for possible snow again on Tues night, so it'll be a bit before we plant it.

[rambler]

Sounds good.

The corn will want more nitrogen, while the beans will only need a little to start out, then shouldn't have more as they produce their own. Works best if you can arrange your fertilizers like that.

Also leaves tend to tie up nitrogen a lot, so best if you get them to rot down with extra nitrogen before the corn is planted.

But should all be nice, sounds like you got the basics out there.

We are looking at snow banks, 32 degrees, and drizzly very cold rain here, don't think the frost is out of the ground yet. Sigh.

Paul

[COWS]

Well, the corn is up, about 4 inches high, and the beans are up. Planted more corn yesterday, was dead tired after pushing a wheelbarrow around a pasture picking up cow chips. We planted peas and okra today, just used commercial fertilizer.

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[rambler]

Sounds great. the snow is almost melted here, soil temps are around 40. Another 15 degrees before corn works here. Should be a warm weekend, but then cooler again next week.

Enjoy hearing about good crops!

Paul

[RonM]

Way too early for beans I would think unless you are in Fla.

[COWS]

Well, I hope that corn is laid by. I hoed it, put on some more cottonseed meal for nitrogen, and raked leaves around it. It has a good color so I will hopefully just watch it grow.

COWS

[RonM]

Where do you live???

[COWS]

Live in western SC.

COWS

[plowhand]

My stuff is coming up slow, higher land first. I can't get over the cucumbers coming up 'fore the string beans. The old family saved beans come up first, reckon they have got used to the area after 150 years!
I used to be picking and canning beans by this time of year, so much for global warming. Maybe it causes the temps and season to be cooler in some areas.

[rambler]

They had 12-14 inches of snow just a few miles SE of me, still snowing in that corner of the state.

We only got 2-3 inches here by me.

Last decade farmers like to be done planting corn by the 5th or 10th of May. Only one guy planted any farther away, everyone is talking about him. Not really much field work done at all....

Close to freezing tonite and tomorrow night yet.... And a rainy weekend.

Going to be a while to get this crop in, grain prices are in for a roller coaster yet.

Paul

[Alice In TX/MO]

My neighbor brought me fresh green beans yesterday!