Planted corn in garden today

COWS · #1 04/03/14, 09:28 AM

Planted 2 rows about 120 feet long in garden today. One row merit sweet corn, one row bloody butcher.

Procedure: raked leaves and put on garden last fall(not my favorite job, I prefer to pick up bagged leaves from in town, but something has to be done with leaves) A few days ago I raked leaves off the rows in hopes the sun would warm the ground up. Put chicken manure on the rows, tilled it in with garden tiller a couple of days ago. We have had a couple of days of 80 degree weather here in SC and today I layed off the rows with a hoe, dropped the seed by hand, covered with the hoe, patting sown the soil with the hoe over the seed.
It's always worked before.

Have a Red Oak tree. Those leaves are tough and don't decay quickly. I prefer Maple leaves from the trees along the drive since they settle down better and decay quicker.

COWS

FarmboyBill · #2 04/03/14, 03:11 PM

Yeah, I got mine in Wed. 4 varieties, each 15ft row

Smitty0560 · #3 04/03/14, 05:16 PM

Must be nice...

The ground here is still fairly frozen. Very heavy frost this morning.

FarmboyBill · #4 04/03/14, 05:25 PM

Ha Planted my garden with no shirt on it was so hot

rambler · #5 04/03/14, 09:05 PM

We have a road closed north of us, the snow plow drivers are saying visibility is near zero, several accidents on the state road web site.

Getting that 3-9 inches of snow this evening, it started out mist, then ice pellets, now snow.

Ah well.

Paul

Dixie Bee Acres · #6 04/03/14, 10:24 PM

I hope the chicken manure was composted.
Also, due to the fact corn is pollenated by wind, you would do much better to do a block of short rows rather than one long row of each variety.
Also, planting 2 varieties side by side, they will cross pollenate.

7thswan · #7 04/04/14, 07:03 AM

I also do blocks instead of rows. We usally plant 5 different types( days until harvest), a long season of corn.

Moboiku · #8 04/04/14, 07:12 AM

Have you considered getting a leaf shredder? I found one on CL for $15 a few years ago that works great. I don't rake our leaves - I figure if I leave them on the ground, they act as a layer of mulch here and they either get shredded by the mower or in spring the grass grows up and has the benefit of the leaf mulch layer. But when I can, I do like to get bags of leaves from in town that others have raked. I run those through the leaf shredder and they break down MUCH faster after that.

I don't plant corn any more. I did that a few years ago but found the plants take up quite a bit of space to produce just two ears of corn apiece and then they're done. And, around the time those two ears are ready, they're selling corn on the cob in the grocery store for 10c a piece. I know mine is organically grown and theirs isn't but still…..in the space a corn plant takes up, I could have had tomatoes or kale or collards or swiss chard that would have produced all season long.

COWS · #9 04/04/14, 07:22 AM

Got manure last fall. The two varieties of corn have different maturity dates, should be ok, has worked in the past. Problem may be when I plant more sweet corn later, but will try to separate it from first planting.

COWS

rambler · #10 04/04/14, 07:40 AM

Schools 2 hours late this morning, wife's car was scraping the belly on the heavy wet snow that came down over night.

We are a ways from planting a typing here......

Paul

Studhauler · #11 04/05/14, 08:52 AM

I'm with Paul, my garden is under a foot of snow.

How far south would I have to move to have sweet corn from my garden on the fourth of July?

pottypigeon · #12 04/05/14, 04:10 PM

Eating our corn at the moment. We love to boil it up and roll it in butter

Tasmania Australia.

COWS · #13 04/05/14, 04:11 PM

In SC, most areas East of Columbia, the capital city in the middle of the state, should have corn then. I'm in W SC and I shouldn't miss it far.

KEH

homstdr74 · #14 04/05/14, 04:34 PM

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Originally Posted by COWS

Planted 2 rows about 120 feet long in garden today. One row merit sweet corn, one row bloody butcher.

Procedure: raked leaves and put on garden last fall(not my favorite job, I prefer to pick up bagged leaves from in town, but something has to be done with leaves) A few days ago I raked leaves off the rows in hopes the sun would warm the ground up. Put chicken manure on the rows, tilled it in with garden tiller a couple of days ago. We have had a couple of days of 80 degree weather here in SC and today I layed off the rows with a hoe, dropped the seed by hand, covered with the hoe, patting sown the soil with the hoe over the seed.
It's always worked before.

Have a Red Oak tree. Those leaves are tough and don't decay quickly. I prefer Maple leaves from the trees along the drive since they settle down better and decay quicker.

COWS

I always plant the old way that was taught to the pioneers by the Indians---never plant corn until the oak leaves are as big as a squirrel's ear. Since our oaks haven't even begun to leaf out yet, I have to wait until they do. In fact, our hickories haven't yet leafed out, and they leaf out before the oaks.

FarmboyBill · #15 04/05/14, 08:07 PM

I didn't really care about the 4 rolls cross pollinating DB. I just wanted to see which varietie stood the drouth the best,.