SWEET CORN - Most IMPORTANT GARDEN STAGE in Growing.
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- 🌽SWEET CORN - Most IMPORTANT GARDEN STAGE, in HOW to GROW Sweet Corn Organically.Homesteading gardening food. maize - topic.
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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. :-)
GREAT SAYING.. and so true.. THANKS
Pinche Guarito 💚
We used to put a couple drops of mineral oil on the tassel end of the ear, to keep out ear-worms. It really did a great job preserving the beautiful sweet ears for the ground hogs and raccoons to enjoy.
GREAT ANSWER..you are not alone.. THANKS for sharing.
Great info! Ruth Stout built a fully enclosing cage for her corn in the days before electric netting. That seems a bit cost prohibitive. I have three dogs that roam close to the garden and the chickens. No losses from critters yet, either in the garden or coop. (Well, except for mice eating my beans...)
WOW. Smart lady.. I fell that this is the only way sometimes.. THANK YOU for sharing this.
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.
THANK YOU for sharing this...
Just what I needed..thanks
I’m going to try growing corn next year. Thanks for the inspiration. I fight the moths and worms from them so bad here in the SoCal desert. Thanks Mark
GREAT, so glad to Hear. THANK YOU.
I hang foil pie plates on a string hanging on the Shepard's hook. For crows
Yes, it is seems to keep them back. THANK YOU.
Hmm, would just strips of aluminum foil also work? Seems like a lot of pie plates would be needed. But maybe the noise from the pie plates getting moved in the wind is also important?
Very Good Video tyfs!😁👏🏾👏🏾
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...")
It is a variety called KICKOFF ( a bicolor super sweet corn fro Johnnyseeds.com ) I will have to build a 2 x 4 frame around it. THANKS. that is my happy word.. Also Too. THANK YOU.
Beautiful corn.
THANK YOU. Looking forward to share with friends.
Good info. I grew up in the midwest where sweet corn and feed corn are kings.
Just started growing my first corns this year. I feel like a little kid. I'm so excited to see them grow.
Do you grow and native species from the tribes in our area?
It is really very satisfying to grow them. I am Sorry i do not I grow the sweetest new varieties. Love my CORN. THANKS for asking. And ENJOY your HARVEST.
I AM ORGANIC GARDENING rock on
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 !!!
min, 2 feet between rows. Max 3. Must plant at least a block of 4 rows to pollenate well of 4 feet long. 6 to 8 inch between seeds in rows. about 2 inch deep.
@@iamorganicgardening great info! Thanks !
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!
Thanks about the corn.. AND YES, that is what I am use amount wish also know cutting the same area ( one Bar ).. I look forward to cut the lawn now. The best part for me is I ride it around the farm. Have over 200 hrs on it now.
Love your channel and your videos! Awesome info on the corn Mark
THANK YOU so very much for your kind words. Happy Gardening
Great tip on the neem oil. How about DE? So what you're saying is be aligned with nature. Don't harm the helpers and they'll come and get the job done. 🍀
Bt is the way to go if you have problems. Or planting your first year or two. Thanks
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.
I will look into this.. THANK YOU for sharing.
Thank You...Great tips
And thank you for watching.
Hi, Mark. Have you tried bagging the corn? I am glad you have good corn growing now.
Hello, Great new Name. No I Have not. Can you give more details please. THANKS
No more like paper. They make bags for it. Pollination on top.and sleve for silk. It is strapped. Plastic would not be good. I put net bags on grapes and Apple. It would work after pollen transfer. Look at video on John Parkers grape. They make longer bags.
THANKS very helpful.
You mentioned that if we’re growing a small amount of corn we should hand pollinate. Can you explain how you do that? 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
Glad you found out.
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?
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
THANK YOU for sharing with me..
I'm open minded and interested in all you do on the farm. On my neighbors fields ,commercial, he plants every 4 to 6 inches apart, grew soybean or wheat the crop before, and he spreads compost from his dairy herd. However, if he doesn't put down some other fertilizers his corn leaves turn purple striped or yellow or etc and he has poor prduction. Sometimes in the past I've seen his corn stalks blow over in strong winds. The following year he adds boron and selenium and whatever his soil report advises him to do. I listened to the lady at Oxford you played for us and I don't understand what he can do to access the 92 nutrients that she says are plentiful for years to come. I have 20 acres and a lot you say about soil I can understand now better than the last 30 years
Your neighbor should grow a winter cover crop ( Must keep a living root in the ground all year long ) and slowly reduce the fertilizer they use each year.
@@iamorganicgardening Thank you
The silk is also very tasty.
I will have to try. THANK YOU for sharing this.
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
THAT is such an GREAT IDEA... THANK YOU.
17 HMR works great for crows racoon possum.
whats a good block to plant corn for a everage home garden??? i can do 10 long by 3 rows,,,,,that ok?
Yes OK
Maybe using BT might help
It use to.. BUT now you have to mix it with Spinosad ( organic use OK ). There's only 3 organic products today that give you any help.. And it falls into all working `60 to 70% THANKS for your help.
Educate me. Why do you have to use BT with Spinosad?
Glad to help.. The BT just slows them down , does not kill any more. They are also finding this to be the case also in cucumber beetles. What a farmer to do next is unknown..SAD
I normally mix bt and spinosad together along with dish soap and a bit of neem oil.
i wonder if this is because of gmo. also i wanted to ask many of your other crops you get very little pests - esp your tomato as they were healthy were not attacked...why is the corn different.
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.
My friend that has a organic farm and grows 15 acres of sweet corn uses that. But since I do not sell mine yet ( they are for my personal use only). I just cut out the damage from them. THANK YOU for sharing this..
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.
Glad to hear that the badgers left. Not a friendly animal. Great Plan for your corn.. THANK YOU.
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
Sure you can water daily.. Corn is in the grass family and love water.
@@iamorganicgardening Thks how many ears per plant does kickoff get? I am growing in pots. I just received the kickoff seeds for next grow
Sorry , You can not grow corn in pots. You must have at least 4 rows 2 feet apart of 8 feet long to pollinate the corn correctly
@@iamorganicgardening how many cobbs did you get per stock with kickoff ?? I have lots of land.
I just planted Kickoff XR. I wondering how many cobbs per stock I might get??
do you ever have any problems with voles?
So years YES and some years NO.. I think the FOXES get them. THANK YOU for asking.
did you say what name of the sweet corn you planted?
The variety is call KICKOFF a super sweet corn from Johnnysseeds.com
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.
I have heard of that also. THANKS for sharing
....and porcupines will climb wire fences!
This is very true...THANKS
I had ants devoure all my corn 😞
I have never heard about something like that.. THANK YOU for sharing.
Patti Hayden what kind of ants are they?