Forum home Fruit & veg
This Forum will close on Wednesday 27 March, 2024. Please refer to the announcement on the Discussions page for further detail.

corn growing advice

12346

Posts

  • i never met Joy Larkcom
    but I have met  
    Marvin H. Meisner, Mel Bartholomew 
    and Amy Goldman 
    as for my horticultural results I won several first second
    and other ribbons. and one grand champion over last few years. 
    as for the uk never been there as for other details i
     will have post later.
  • war  garden 572war garden 572 Posts: 664
    edited February 2022

    fidgetbones  7 inches between plants in row 
    the distance between rows when corn is plant in
    rows and distance between rows can be 12-18
    in. and since corn is planted in blocks
    with minimum 4 rows so you get proper pollination.
     
    so if have 4 rows that are 8 ft long. 
    each plant being 8 inch apart  you have 12 plants per row
    so you corn rows are 12 inches apart each corn plant 12 in 
    apart so you corn bed of 4 row is 4ft wide you only have
    reach max of 24in from each side so it each to pick your corn
     without needing  to get in between rows. if each corn plant gives one
    ear of corn per plant you can harvest 48 ears of corn from area of
    45 square feet or 4.45935 square meters for those who
    are  metric. 

    pansyface  sorry but i haven't even gotten really boring yet. 
    if did i could do good lecture on potting soil volume needed to 
    fill partial conic section pots and the amount expansion and
    contraction after water is added to the planting medium. 

    there is also the lecture on:" the social economic impact  jimmy cracking 
    corn and the authors indifference to it". 
  • Balgay.HillBalgay.Hill Posts: 1,089
    so 12 times 8 if growing
    not equal 5 rows up not
    maybe if cold boxes not
    too tight to tolerate be i
    if sort not sort quartering
    sort not torque maybe?
    Sunny Dundee
  • war  garden 572war garden 572 Posts: 664
    edited February 2022
    there several tricks to growing corn in high tunneBalgay.Hill said:
    so 12 times 8 if growing
    not equal 5 rows up not
    maybe if cold boxes not
    too tight to tolerate be i
    if sort not sort quartering
    sort not torque maybe?
    your post is difficult understand could you clarify it. 
  • Balgay.HillBalgay.Hill Posts: 1,089
    there several tricks to growing corn in high tunneBalgay.Hill said:
    so 12 times 8 if growing
    not equal 5 rows up not
    maybe if cold boxes not
    too tight to tolerate be i
    if sort not sort quartering
    sort not torque maybe?
    your post is difficult understand could you clarify it. 
    extraction of kidney juice maybe
    i yes think was i doing corny yes
    Sunny Dundee
  • FireFire Posts: 19,096
    "it looks like a bit like class of school kids picking on someone who’s not in their gang. "

    There's a lot of it about.
  • pansyface that's the wrong kind of corn.
  • OmoriOmori Posts: 1,674
    Fire said:
    "it looks like a bit like class of school kids picking on someone who’s not in their gang. "

    There's a lot of it about.
    There certainly is. Take this for example. If this had been said by a newer member, they would have been jumped all over for it. And yet…crickets.  

    punkdoc said:
    Sod the lot of you then.
  • mr digwell comic april 8,1989 daily mirror 

     that's 2 uk sources that says you can plant corn less than 36 in.
    12in inches to be exact.  
  • Pete.8Pete.8 Posts: 11,340
    edited February 2022
    I think I still have Mr Digwell's vegetable gardening calendar book somewhere.
    For some reason I remember taking it with me as a child when we used to go on driving holidays in Europe.
    As soon as I saw your post I remembered the book - thanks for the memory!

    I found a pic of the book too - I must have had that book in the early 1970's


    Billericay - Essex

    Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit.
    Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.
Sign In or Register to comment.