🌽SWEET CORN – Most IMPORTANT GARDEN STAGE, in HOW to GROW Sweet Corn Organically.Homesteading gardening food. maize – topic.
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Sweet Corn field clean up: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cUmTgBN2cNY
VIDEO: SWEET CORN – Most IMPORTANT GARDEN STAGE in Growing.
🌽SWEET CORN – Most IMPORTANT GARDEN STAGE, in HOW to GROW Sweet Corn Organically.Homesteading gardening food. maize – topic.
#gardening.
Sweet Corn field clean up: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cUmTgBN2cNY
did you say what name of the sweet corn you planted?
I was just talking about sweet corn with my friend. How interesting the process! Nature is amazing, everytime!
BTW my ryobi 480ex has a multi-hitch now! I've only used more than one bar on the meter in all the times I've used it. I cant get over having an electric riding mower!
I've heard that the ol' timers solved this problem by growing three times as much as you want to end up with. A third goes to critters and bugs, another third goes to acts of God, and you get what's left over. 🙂
What I have done with fence is put a roadblock to their climbing ability on fences… You can put a strip of metal near the top edge to prevent them from being able to grab the higher anything to get their hand on… or curve the fence outward that they'd be upside down and maybe fall off…
Hi, Mark. Have you tried bagging the corn? I am glad you have good corn growing now.
I don't think we have any pests for our corn on the allotment since the badgers left. Our crows must be dimmer than yours and the foxes dissuade the squirrels. That said, I am going to put plastic covers on each cob when it reaches a decent size.
Hi Mark, I've heard deer really don't like the smell of Marigolds and it has shown to be effective keeping them from munching on hostas.
Beautiful corn.
The silk is also very tasty.
I read about a man who's son and his friends were hanging out in the fruit orchard listening to heavy metal music. They had placed the boom box in an old cast iron bathtub. They went off to do something but left the music playing. The father was upset with his son but, as he walked out into the field he noticed there were no crows! He usually lost 80% of his fruit to crows! That year he did not loose any to crows!!! From then on he played the music in the field when the fruit was on its way to ripe.
There is also a man (Paul Gautschi) in Sequim shoots a crow every year and hangs the dead crow on a pole, it keeps the other crows away. It does not work on the other birds though.
What varieties of corn did you plant, Mark? Also, (too) how in the world will you put up insect netting? I love how you say "Also, too…")
hay Mark have you tried spinosad?I used it this year in Phoenix without a single ear damaged,I have never had this much success with any other product.the earworms here are beige in color,and can utterly ruin a season of work.
Good info. I grew up in the midwest where sweet corn and feed corn are kings.
17 HMR works great for crows racoon possum.
You mentioned that if we’re growing a small amount of corn we should hand pollinate. Can you explain how you do that? Thanks!
….and porcupines will climb wire fences!
Can you prevent the moths from being attracted to the corn by cutting off the silk? Also, can you put lights around the perimeter of the corn patch to draw them away from the corn at night?
Thank You…Great tips
For generations, Cajun gardeners have used a couple drops of cooking oil at corn tassels to stop worms. I saw the comment about using mineral oil and my thought was that it might continue to flow downward. Cooking oil would get sticky in place shortly after applying with the aid of a little warmth and sunshine.
South Louisiana weather has evolved to either floods or droughts with extreme heat waves. I'm abandoning ground planting (except for sweet corn) and switching to your wire raised beds. Besides, the ground gets further and further away as I continue to age from 73 .
Thanks for sharing all the technical info and your experimentation.
Burt
Love your channel and your videos! Awesome info on the corn Mark
How often do you water the corn daily?
I am growing in N. Calif it's about 100°f every day last week 110 for 3 days. Would daily watering be ok? Also how many ears do you get from the Kickoff variety?? Thks
You need a dead crow to hang nearby. My neighbor attracted it to start with using a red wig, the crows went nuts and attacked it for some reason. I have no clue why.
ive taken a box trap and extended the back by 3 ft. Then I cut a hole in the fence to fit trap opening so the trap is on the inside. Anything trying to get in walks the fence and when it comes to the hole in the fence it goes in and is caught. this is at my chicken coop and catches coons and possums so far, it also catches chickens when ive had escapes from my grandchildren leaving gates open. Should work for garden fence to
I read somewhere that mineral oil on the silk will keep corn worms away.
Nice video! How wide are your rows and distance the seeds are apart in the row? What approximately is your harvest population? Great looking corn! Thanks !!!
whats a good block to plant corn for a everage home garden??? i can do 10 long by 3 rows,,,,,that ok?
Just what I needed..thanks
Weird i thought it was grasshoppers eating my silk but i found tiny red/brown beetles eating it
They kinda reminds me of flea beetles because they jump off down to the ground