My Sweet Corn Reviews

[charlz]

Did you plant the GottaHaveIt bi-color or white? I waited too long to order seed this year and the bi-color was sold out so I am trying the white.

Almost sounds like you just didn't get a good crop. Usually my plants were about 5' tall and both ears usable on the majority but the lower ear ripens later than the upper ear which I believe is normal for corn in general. With the cold wet spring we had I had to wait a few weeks past normal to plant so my corn is only about 6" high right now.

 

[Car Doc]

It was bi-color charlz.

The second batch is tasseled out now and its about 6' tall it was planted 3 weeks later maybe 2? I have to look at my calender in the garden shed for sure but I am waiting on that to really get a better feel for this sweet corn it is a better representation probably.

The batch I am picking now was definitely too early it finally got to close to 6' by the time the ears all silked and I hope you are right I would like a bigger crop!

 

[Car Doc]

Final thoughts on Gurneys GottaHaveIt now its all been harvested and processed. Is its absolutely the best sweet corn I ever ate its so sweet its hard to describe.

Everybody that I gave some to raved about it and it likes warm ground also btw dont get in a hurry planting it.

I got near 100% germination in the second and third planting it is very small seed and I had lots if not all doubles running it thru my earthway using the corn plate. Next year I will try a different plate see if I can spread them out a little.

As far as bugs go I found for me anyway just this season that liquid sevin in a pump up sprayer sprayed right on the silks just as they appear and them powdered sevin all over the whole plant a week or so later got me almost market quality corn. And by that I mean almost nil bug damage maybe 1 in 30 had a nibble on top but none had bugs inside the husk when I shucked them.

It worked great and was well worth the cost of the sevin for those that dont mind chemicals.

 

[speedy2]

Car Doc, Will you explain to me what you mean by double rows? Down here in east Texas I have never heard that expression as to corn planting. Thanks, speedy2

 

[Car Doc]

Sure! It is my quirked way of doing things being lazy more than anything hahaha!

Please disregard the lack of cultivating in between the rows I am lazy but not that bad. We have had 30 some days straight over 100 mowing the garden isn't on my list plus its all done and will be turned into mulch this weekend with my bush hog anyway.

Its where I planted on either side of furrows I made with a middle buster and then seeded it on top of the ridges with an earthway seeder.

I flood irrigate the furrows with hoses and run a mini tiller between the rows down the furrow early season to cultivate it works pretty good I think anyway. Also the mini tiller has been in the shop for the last few weeks.

I made my furrows 6' apart so I can get in between and work/mow/etc another lazy thing I did.

 

[charlz]

I plant the same way on flat ground as we flood irrigate. Two rows of seed per mound, approx 18" wide mounds. When I put the fertilizer in using the Earthway I just go right in between the two rows of seed. I use a cultivator to make the rows and then can make a few passes cultivating before the corn gets too high for my tractor to go over. Helps with the weeds in the early weeks but they sure take off later.

This year I rotated my corn into my raised bed area and plant 3 rows of seed per 4' wide bed. I put the fertilizer between the rows, so 2 passes of fertilizer per bed. The drip hoses then also run down between the rows.

I will have to look again but I think it is the pea plate I use with every other hole taped over. This results in misses so you have to watch it close and go slow. Better than lots of doubles with the price of this seed though! Then I use the bean plate to apply fertilizer... will have to double check I might have those backwards.

This 'shruken augmented' seed is kinda weird shaped and not graded so not all that easy to plant. I understand they use air planters versus plate planters when planting this type of seed commercially.

 

[Car Doc]

Hey charlz what did you think about the corn you grew GottaHaveIt also didn't you the white variety?

Yup using the seeder to fertilize is sure a time saver and puts it right where you want it and just the right amount.

I have quite a bit of seed left over and I definitely plan on figuring out some way to plant it correctly before I put that much expensive seed down next year I was thinking the pea plate also might work?

 

[charlz]

Hey charlz what did you think about the corn you grew GottaHaveIt also didn't you the white variety?

My corn is only about 3' high I don't normally get corn until about the 3rd week of August... might be a little later this year due the cool wet spring delaying planting... can't wait :licking:

 

[Car Doc]

Ok well I hope it turns out good I am sure it will. :thumbsup:

We have had the exact opposite 1.80" rain since last year and a month straight over 100 yesterday was 113!

I had the corn on a timer to water twice a day for 99 minutes each time is the only way I got out of it what I did.

 

[Ford850]

I picked a dozen ears of my GottaHaveIt last week, and it was not as good as I have had other years because it wasn't mature enough. I remembered afterwards that the best and sweetest was picked when the ears looked like they would be tough. So now I have to wait a little longer. It seems like this variety never really gets tough or over ripe.