Show me your Garden

[PineRidge]

Pete our first efforts in planting corn this season went sour also so don't feel to awful bad.

Once we got the second planting to take we gave it a shot of Urea and it really took off! I'm thinking that Urea is going to be a regular around our garden from this point forward.

Around here I always heard that corn needs to be in the ground by the 15th of June. Don't know if it will mature in Ohio if planted beyond that date.

BTW Our soil was lousy too until last fall we tilled in 20 dump-truck loads of composted horse manure. I'm thinking about doing the same again this fall because it made all the difference in the world.

 

[HRS]

First of the season like this my 4-y-old eats them as fast as they make. That's why I have 8 plants. Visiting the garden each evening with a little one is a blast. /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif Concerning your need to replant, do you think it could have been the seed? I got my hands on some last year that I had little success with. Never had this problem before. I was suspect of the length of time they had been sitting around on the shelf. I've seen a corn patch this year that was planted with last year's seed. This was done intentionally. Germination was nearly non existent.

 

[PineRidge]

At least in my case it couldn't have been the seed. We purchased all of our sweet corn seed at the same time (early spring) and it is all of the same variety. It boiled down to timing and weather related as the later corn plantings are doing well so far. The ground just needed to dry up and warm up some.

 

[rswyan]

</font><font color="blue" class="small">( Comes a time one should sample a little venison!! )</font>

Egon, I hear ya !

I think that it used be, in Ohio, that you could take rabbit any time (no season) - anybody know if that's also true for deer ?

The garden borders a fenced field where a neighbor keeps his show sheep. For some reason they never come down to the end of the field any more and the grass has grown up probably 3'+ tall.

Our orange cat (with no name) makes daily hunting trips up there. Yesterday evening we found him out in the yard having baby bunny for dinner.

 

[rswyan]

Errr ...... Mike .........

Judging from the looks of your garden maybe I should come veggie shopping over there ? /forums/images/graemlins/cool.gif

Where did you get the urea ? Cost ?

Apply it in a regular pump sprayer ?

 

[HRS]

Well, since you bought them all at the same time, then the seed must have been good.

Now I did notice something interesting this year. I planted nearly 2 acres the first full week in April. After the corn got up to about 8 inches, I went out and fertilized the whole patch by hand with 10-10-10 while my brother cultivated it, by tractor. Decided to try this since 10-10-10 is the only commercial fertilizer I have ever used in my garden, and I've always grown beautiful corn, etc. with it. Two or so weeks later I went back to check on the patch. I was amazed at what I saw. A good deal of corn had since come up, for the field was much thicker and the younger corn was obvious due to the fact that it was about 1/2 as tall as that which was there when we cultivated earlier. So how long can seed sit if you plant too early, or if like this year, we just have a cool spring? I would think that the only thing that would actually kill them would be if they germinated and then a late freeze came in. I also notice this with my beans in my garden. I've had seed sprout weeks after the first emerged. I find this interesting. I'm not sure why this happens, but it does ever so often. Do any of you plant in the signs offered in the almanac? I've never bothered. But my dad was a firm believer in planting particular crops in the "correct" sign.

 

[PineRidge]

Rswyan The only place we could find Urea was Copley Feed. It was $12.50 for 40 pounds and I put down an inch strip (side-dressed) then covered it using a rake.

Maybe you should try putting it on your corn dissolved in water so we could compare notes.

I have used 12-12-12 in the past put I think the hot shot of nitrogen really made the corn take off. We'll see what it looks like a couple of weeks from now.

If you come over for the party maybe you can pick a couple of ears from our sweet corn patch yourself. /forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif

 

[billbill1]

My garden, finally!!!

 

[PineRidge]

Bill I think your picture was to large to post. You may want to try that again......

 

[billbill1]

Mike, I'm so computer stupid that I finally gave up. I tried the picture resizer and it just wouldn't let me post. I'll try again tomorrow after I cool down. I guess I'm lucky I can read and see all of the posts that you guys make.