November 10, 2024

VIDEO: Growing Corn – Part 1 Planting and Germinating


Corn, Once The Garden Darling. One of the most popular crops of past backyard gardens, corn has fallen out of favor recently. Large, cheap to buy at the grocery store, and a bit tricky during pollination time as you need several plants to ensure healthy ears. Despite all that, a HIGHLY rewarding crop to grow in this day, during these times.

A poor transplanter, corn is usually direct seeded, even here in Canada. However, with a finite warm growing period, if you want corn early, you gotta seed corn early. As a warm-weather plant, it will NOT germinate in cold or even cool soils. Bit of a pickle eh? Well, let’s get these guys seeded early like a typical seed in typical seeding trays…..and then see where we get to!

3-part series

Part 1: You are here!
Part 2: https://youtu.be/8eUpHaGqI7I
Part 3: https://youtu.be/O9OzVtOidYE

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25 thoughts on “VIDEO: Growing Corn – Part 1 Planting and Germinating

  1. If you're just starting out gardening in 2020, this inexpensive set of tools from Amazon can get you and your Corn up and running this spring! I know there is a fevered and renewed interest in gardening and many of you are seasoned vets. But remember that there's a whole population out there that hasn't gardened before. Let's help them out and encourage as much as possible! Affiliate links below:

    Amazon USA: https://amzn.to/3bvbMvl

    Amazon Canada: https://amzn.to/3aoN1AN

  2. I’ve been absolutely loving your videos 🙂 Ive watched pretty much all of your videos in the quarantine you deserve so many more subscribers your content is so awesome!! Nice job ☺️

  3. So I am planning to do this and my target is to transplant corn on June when I have slot available. Would you mind sharing like a timetable? Like how many days is needed for the corn be ready for transplanting?

  4. Funny thing is last year,when I didn't know any better, I took an ear from fridge that had started to wither. I broke it in half by hand then took a knife and cut halves into quarters. I took a Tupperware dish bin and filled it with soil. I planted the 4 quarters in the corners of bin and kept watering daily. Every single kernel germinated. Never having done this before I pulled all the sprouts out of the cob. Had WAY too many babies and ALL of them transplanted fine. I'll probably never be able to do this again.

  5. 1. Start with fresh corn seeds for the best results.

    2. Directly sow seeds approximately 1.5 to 2 inches deep and 4 to 6 inches apart.

    3. Cover with soil, space your rows of seeds 30 to 36

    inches apart.

    4. Water your block of corn well after planting.

    5. Corn stalks are sturdy and should not need staking.

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