My word!What a relief!I thought you had trouble with your feet! I have heard if you go out and sit and talk to it,it will grow faster.I tried that once but by the time I got out of the loony farm it had already turned brown. sam.
Just a thought - have you done any soil analysis or perhaps read of any soil analysis in your area as a means to optimizing any needed fertilizer or nutrients? Sometimes a little bit of the right chemical goes a long way.
Just make sure it gets enough water, and the sun doesn't fry it, and you will be a nibbling on it pretty soon. Put fence around it to keep away the "children of the corn"!
I made pasta last night with homegrown parsley, oregano, basil, tomatoes and rosemary, what a good feeling to grow my own herbs. I had to buy the hamburger and pasta though.
To the original poster:
In this area you need to spray your corn early to keep the bugs out of it. I didn't get on the ball last year and lost almost all of my corn.
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Well I have never tried it, but an old professor would plant his corn in two rows, and use a length of PVC pipe to shake one rows pollen onto the other, and vice versa.
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Amonia Nitrate used very spearingly will cause it to grow faster. Matter of fact you'll here it growing.
It will make a crackle sound...I swear !!!...Farmer...A.H
Amonia Nitrate, just buying that stuff anymore may get you a visit from the feds wanting to know what you are doing with it, just dont store it with your diesel fuel
I planted my corn the last week of May and it popped up about a 10 days later. Most of mine is only about 6 inches tall at this point, but is very quickly growing.
My corn has been sketchy this year... I tried some new variety from Gurney seeds... may be a bad batch cause all the field corn around me is looking good this year... I keep trying to get the farmer by me to overspray onto my garden! LOL
I read recently that overuse of nitrogen can actually age and deplete soil of nutrients up to 5,000 years! scary... thats what happened with the dustbowl of the 1930's. I keep waiting for the old timer to put some beans in... but for 5th year in a row.... its corn! I dont mind it actually cause once it is up you cant see my house at all.
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