sorry to inform you but you and most of uk are the victims of a measurement conversion error. for corn spacing between plants in rows should be 18 cm not 18 inches and 18 in between row 45 cm or 7 in between plants in row and 18 in between rows if you row planting.
also i was suggesting people in uk grow early varieties
sorry to inform you but you and most of uk are the victims of a measurement conversion error. for corn spacing between plants in rows should be 18 cm not 18 inches and 18 in between row 45 cm or 7 in between plants in row and 18 in between rows if you row planting.
also i was suggesting people in uk grow early varieties
Interesting little snippet: (I've always wondered...)
"In England, wheat was "corn," while oats were "corn" in Scotland and Ireland, and even rice was "the only corn that grows in the island" of Batavia (a.k.a. the Indonesian island of Java), as described in a 1767 travelogue."
I'm also thinking about the "Corn Laws" which was mainly about wheat.
7 inch between plants does not give space to get between them for harvesting. It sounds more like a spacing for the corn that we call wheat. Suitable spacing for a combine harvester.
I stick by my original advice, which coincidentally is very similar to the RHS, who do know what they are on about.
I do look forward to the day starting with incomprehensible, unsolicited advice irrelevant to my growing conditions for a vegetable I do not wish to grow.
I thought the title of the thread referred to somebody wanting advice, rather than pontificating to theUK from a few thousand miles away. What's next, I wonder?
Interesting theory that we Brits have somehow confused Imperial with metric measurements. The OP implies the spacing distances should be in centimetres not inches - odd given that the US still uses feet and inches...
I sense a WUM with too much time on his hands.
Since 2019 I've lived in east Clare, in the west of Ireland.
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A good gardener or farmer will choose the right variety for their growing conditions. That’s what gardening and farming is all about.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
of a measurement conversion error. for corn spacing
between plants in rows should be 18 cm not 18 inches
and 18 in between row 45 cm or 7 in between plants in
row and 18 in between rows if you row planting.
also i was suggesting people in uk grow early varieties
I can just visualise Corporal Jones now...don't panic...
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
"In England, wheat was "corn," while oats were "corn" in Scotland and Ireland, and even rice was "the only corn that grows in the island" of Batavia (a.k.a. the Indonesian island of Java), as described in a 1767 travelogue."
I'm also thinking about the "Corn Laws" which was mainly about wheat.
https://www.bonappetit.com/test-kitchen/ingredients/article/the-etymology-of-the-word-corn
Cambridgeshire/Norfolk border.
What's next, I wonder?
I sense a WUM with too much time on his hands.