Can Extra Sweet Corn Seed Be Kept?

[OkeeDon]

<font color="blue"> So, how about it Florida guys? Is this stuff the best there is in the Sunshine State? </font>

Nah. We keep the good stuff and ship the rest of it out to people who wish they had vegetables year-round. /forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

 

[KubotaSteve]

Where I live there used to be a bunch of roadside vegetable wagons selling the local crops. You had to live around there to know which ones were legitimate though. It was always funny watching tourists go and buy field corn that people had went and picked out of a farmer's field without permission. I would think poor souls have their hearts set on some good corn and they are getting field corn!!!

 

[DAP]

Don .. I shudder to ask .. but it's startin to look like you're forgettin where you come from. /forums/images/graemlins/blush.gif

 

[DaveNay]

Hey Doug....why doesn't your dog run anymore on your signature? I thought that was really cool! /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

Dave

 

[Golfgar4]

Gee Dave, he's running when I view it. /forums/images/graemlins/confused.gif

 

[Wood_Butcher_Dav]

I like field corn just as well as what is available in the supermarkets, that is if you pick the field corn at the right time. When in season I do stop by the local farmers market and their corn is hard to beat.

 

[DaveNay]

</font><font color="blue" class="small">( Gee Dave, he's running when I view it. /forums/images/graemlins/confused.gif )</font>

Computers suck.

Cleared my browsers cache, and now it works again. /forums/images/graemlins/confused.gif /forums/images/graemlins/confused.gif

Dave

 

[PineRidge]

Guys thanks for the heads up on saving the seed corn. I'll keep it high, dry, and cool for next year.

For those of you that might try growing a bit of sweet corn, I quickly learned that a single row or two of corn will never produce well. If you don't have a lot of room plant the rows shorter but make more of them. This way the corn can pollinate itself easily and the ears will mature well. Otherwise you might end up wasting your time and effort. Corn is fairly easy to grow and great tasting right from the garden.

 

[timb]

How are most folks planting their sweet corn? It's been more than a few years since I planted corn. This year I don't have time to deal with a big area but I wanted to get some in so I planted four fairly short rows by hand - too short to be even worth dragging out the planter. I actually bothered to read the package and it described planting FOUR seeds every 10" and thinning to TWO stalks at each position when they come up. I don't ever remember seeding that heavy but I did compromise and put in 3 seeds per - and of course got about 95% germination so I've got some thinning to do. I'll leave two stalks in at each position, I'm curious to see how this works out.

Tim

 

[PineRidge]

<font color="blue"> How are most folks planting their sweet corn? </font>

Tim I don't know about the rest but I use a 2-row Allis corn planter that I drag behind my TC-40D. It did a wonderful job of putting the seed and fertilizer where I needed it. The seed plates are interchangeable so you can drop 2 seeds if you feel the need to. I use the correct plate and plant only one seed at a drop as it's almost as much work thinning corn as it is planting it in the first place. /forums/images/graemlins/blush.gif