Raising Sweet Corn, Pumpkins, and Squash.

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If you're talking strictly for the table...plant 'Silver Queen' (no imposters)...

 

[Reyer Farms]

Silver queen is our favorite here, hands down. Funks g90 is good, but silver queen is still the best. I have some Mira to try this year, don't recall which one.

 

[Green Power]

Thank you for the replies guys. I will look into Silver Queen.

 

[sixdogs]

The Silver Queen is a great white sweet corn by itself. It's a "late season" 92 day longer maturity corn.

Silver Queen Hybrid Corn Seeds and Plants, Vegetable Gardening at Burpee.com

Usually people pair this corn with a bi-color shorter maturity in the 70 something day range. Waiting for your corn while others around you are munching down is disappointing to the wife and kids. Plus, the earlier the corn the better it tastes to the soul . Get the Harris Seed catalog and read about it. Stay away from the supersweets until you figure things out.

 

[Green Power]

Sixdogs i have a Gurneys seed catalog. I have changed my mind on doing such a large garden because my Dad and i bought a combine. More on the combine here. http://www.tractorbynet.com/forums/ag-tractors-machinery/302756-john-deere-9510-a.html Thanks for reading.

 

[sixdogs]

Glad to hear on the combine. For others reading this, get a more complete catalog and the Harris Pro Growers catalog deals with cross pollination issues and is very thorough. If not available I'll bet their website is pretty thorough. Good luck on the combine.

 

[Green Power]

Well last night i ordered four Sweet Corn varieties. I ordered packets of Candy Corn, Bodacious, Silver Queen, and Honey & Cream. Hopefully they will be successful and give me about 1,000 ears of Corn. Now how should i go about planting them?

 

[sixdogs]

Well last night i ordered four Sweet Corn varieties. I ordered packets of Candy Corn, Bodacious, Silver Queen, and Honey & Cream. Hopefully they will be successful and give me about 1,000 ears of Corn. Now how should i go about planting them?

Study up on when they pollinate so you don't cross the corn varieties. Some need to be separated by either distance or days to maturity. A good seed catalog has the info. And, uhhh, oh... don't count on 1,000 ears of corn. That's the new math.

The old math says you'll lose 10% to 15% to planter or planting inefficiencies, 10% or so to bugs or cultivating errors and then you better hope the big winds don't pick up and wind your corn into pretzels. Plus, you'll need a good alarm clock since you'll need to be up frequently the few days before maturity so you can scare the racoons away. They will arrive the day before you plan to pick.

So you're looking at 50% to 70% of ears that will approach maturity as long as you're agriculturally oriented, clever and most of all, lucky. That's the new math.

Study up on those things.

 

[Green Power]

Study up on when they pollinate so you don't cross the corn varieties. Some need to be separated by either distance or days to maturity. A good seed catalog has the info. And, uhhh, oh... don't count on 1,000 ears of corn. That's the new math.

The old math says you'll lose 10% to 15% to planter or planting inefficiencies, 10% or so to bugs or cultivating errors and then you better hope the big winds don't pick up and wind your corn into pretzels. Plus, you'll need a good alarm clock since you'll need to be up frequently the few days before maturity so you can scare the racoons away. They will arrive the day before you plan to pick.

So you're looking at 50% to 70% of ears that will approach maturity as long as you're agriculturally oriented, clever and most of all, lucky. That's the new math.

Study up on those things.

OK i guess it would have been better to say i ordered 1,000 seeds, so based on the info you gave me i should get 500 to 700 good ears of corn. Thanks for the info.