I did it. I’m a corn daddy now. Lemme know your favorite way to prep corn down in the comments. Growing corn is super satisfying, it makes you feel like you’re actually out there farming instead of gardening. The 7’+ tall stalks blowing in the wind, the enjoyment of shucking an ear and eating it straight out of the garden…nothing beats it.
00:00 – Intro
00:47 – Corn Background
03:39 – Seed Sowing
05:21 – Spacing And Planting
06:37 – Soil Prep
08:58 – Watering In
09:59 – Mid Season Growth
11:53 – Tassels And Silks
14:06 – Blue Jade Dwarf Corn
15:30 – When To Harvest
16:46 – Shucking Corn
18:33 – 90s Corn Recipe
20:16 – Outro
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Looks great! Never seen corn triplets before… MESS.
You should try wrapping your corn in some wax paper, rubber with butter and sprinkled with salt and pepper for about 10 minutes. My sister told me about that method in the microwave. DELICIOUS!!!
Doesn't corn add nutrients back into the soil?
Loved it
Earwigs are e v e r y w h e r e in my backyard garden!!! HELP!!
I usually take the corn without removing the husk and cook it on the BBQ or over a campfire. Once the husk starts to get a little toasted it’s done. Peel and enjoy!
Anyway I absolutely love your channel! I’m on S/Ontario (zone 5b) so I’m jealous of your growing season. We have a tiny backyard and a 400 sq foot garden plot a 15 min drive away and plant things we can “graze” on at home and then things that we can just check on once a week are in our garden plot.
Thanks again for your awesome channel!
“My garden manager”…Dang!
You are awesome. This motivated me to start my own corn garden 🙂
The way to pick the corn to know when they're ready is the go sideways
Live in a warm area where we dont have much of a winter, maybe 2 to 3 freezes a year in far west texas. i got some great sweet corn seed. will sweet corn still grow with 70-80 degrees? first time gardener. huge success with summer crop and harvest..
I'm going to try growing baby corns next year
How do people cook corn today that's different than what you did? I grew up in the 80s I usually put them in boiling water for 4 mins or for bbqs/camping I'll soak the ears in a cooler full of ice water husk and all for about a ½ hour or more and then put them in the coals of a camp fire.
Very interesting. I was too small to really take in or care when my dad would grow corn. (I was 7 give me a break.) Packing buckets of water was no fun.
Anyway my dad grew indian corn and we even have some still. Blue type and a darker purple red type. Also what I assume is regular corn too.
90’s style was Elote style from East LA at Obergon park!!!
sweet corn at the perfect ripeness is the same as a big zit. light poke to pop a big white head.
Stop it. corn is an evil grain. its worship has twisted this country into its current, disfigured and obese state, not to mention the financial jiggery pokery that brought it to dominance and the fact that nobody, not humans nor animals, can digest it well. we don't need any. more. corn.
Growing up in Missouri I NEVER had issues growing corn, You put seed in the ground, and the corn grew. But I moved to Kansas and I have NEVER been able to get a crop of corn to grow past mid calf height. The wind knocks it down Every time. I have tried several different years in a row without success. This next spring, I am going to try with seed starters, and, more prep, adding blood meal, and then mulching. 3 things that you did that I did not do, because again, I never had to.
As a native Ohioan, your method is silly. You plant corn directly into the soil, unless your growing season is too short. If you are concerned about wasted space due to poor germination, you can plant 2 kernels to a hole, and cull the weak one. You should have twice as many plants in that space, for proper pollination. The outside rows always have poorer pollination rates, so such a small planting is not really worth it. Plant a pumpkin or vine squash every 6 feet, in place of a corn stalk. The leaves will shade the ground and block weeds between the rows. The spines deter racoons, if they are a problem in your area. Conventional wisdom was that you want a minimum of 4 rows, 16 feet long for a good crop. That should yield you 200ish ears in a good Summer.
Ohio has wet Summers and clay soil, so corn is often planted with shallow trenches between the rows to remove excess water. In a dry Summer region with clay soil, you plant in the shallow trenches to catch water.
Always plant a variety that is optimized to your specific region. An award winning variety will often perform poorly outside of the climate and soil it was bred for.
Microwaves are for cheap popcorn. Soak the whole ear for a hour, and barbeque the ear in the husk. Shuck right before eating. Serve with butter, plain salt, black pepper, and cobb holders shaped like tiny ears of corn. It a shame that a tree died for you to desecrate that corn in a microwave oven.
I tried planting corn once. It was a sweet corn but it ended up looking like that dry squirrel corn. I'm not sure what I did wrong never ended up trying it again.
Ugh I wish my body agreed with corn this looks so fun lol
One benefit of living in Ohio is the sweet corn. It’s delicious. I’ll have to try the wet paper towel trick. Congratulations on your corn crop.
is it true that one corn stalk can only be harvested once? what i mean to ask is that once u harvested the corn, the rest of the tree is useless?
Just be careful with raw grains. The mold growing on them is known to cause pancreatic cancer.
I like to stagger plant so I have a consistent harvest of fresh corn all season. They pollinate when the silks come out, that's when I choose the ears that will be saved for seed & hand pollinate it then cover it with a bag to keep it from cross-pollinating. This works great to keep the pure heirlooms year after year.
We cannot grow corn here in Ketchikan, Alaska outside due to the 13’ plus rain we get here in the Alaskan rainforest. I plan to try corn in my soon to be complete greenhouse. How would these get pollinated in a wind free environment like a greenhouse? My first thought is using a leaf blower?
I grew up growing peaches and cream on the family farm and the sound of the husk being pulled back brought back memories, all my friends make me pick out corn for get-togethers now since I still have the knack for knowing which cobs are good in the store haha