Sweet corn "isolation required"

[dieselscout80]

Here is a seed population chart for corn and soybeans.

http://www.kingsagriseeds.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/conversions.pdf

 

[Jstpssng]

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About 4 seeds per foot is what they recommend.

 

[Streetcar]

Sweet corn needs to be isolated if it is the super sweet type. Cross pollination with different type causes starch in kernel

 

[Diggin It]

I just need to come up with a simple but effective way to put them down. I can't see paying a $100 for a seeder that's a couple of wheels and some metal. Might go old school with a stick with a step attached. Place, step, lift, drop seed, cover.

 

[CMV]

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About 4 seeds per foot is what they recommend.

My 4k guess was pretty good then. 3 areas that are roughly 50 x 150' or about 1/2 acre in all, but shared with some squash. Can always save some for next year too if it seems like that will be too much.

ON a side note.....I noticed some corn fields around here last year that never got picked. They just left the plants up with ears on them over winter. About 10AC I pass on way to work every day and they just left the corn there. Thought that was strange, but must be some reason. Maybe to feed deer or something? It was pretty dry last summer so maybe it just wasn't good...no idea....

 

[CMV]

I just need to come up with a simple but effective way to put them down. I can't see paying a $100 for a seeder that's a couple of wheels and some metal. Might go old school with a stick with a step attached. Place, step, lift, drop seed, cover.

Don't know right way, but after tilling was real easy to just go back over leaving small trenches where I wanted rows (leaving kickstand down on tiller did that while tilling accidentally, but worked ). Walk along dropping seeds, then go back & cover with a rake. For such small areas it was pretty painless getting them in the ground. I wouldn't want to do 80 AC that way....

 

[/pine]

I just need to come up with a simple but effective way to put them down. I can't see paying a $100 for a seeder that's a couple of wheels and some metal. Might go old school with a stick with a step attached. Place, step, lift, drop seed, cover.

Just find a manual or pull behind tool that makes a furrow deep enough for the crop...walk along and drop the seeds in a furrow...I make two furrows for each row about 4"-5" apart...space seeds in the center furrow and side dressing (fertilizer) in the other...then cover to depth...this sort of mimics the "EarthBox" gardening system outside the box...

A hiller/bedder toolbar with some different sweeps is an inexpensive implement that is extremely variable in what you can do in a garden with one...especially after tilling...I made a flip down paddle blade that covers the seed and side dressing at the same time makes a third shallow furrow between the first two to channel irrigation water....

 

[Jstpssng]

We always used a rake or hoe. After tilling it's pretty easy to make a furrow, then cover it back over with the same tool.
re, turkeys eating pumpkins; last week I took my squash that was going bad and put them in the hen house.
There isn't much left of it now.

 

[Firemanbuck]

Sweet corn needs to be isolated if it is the super sweet type. Cross pollination with different type causes starch in kernel

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[nybirdman]

Sweet corn will cross pollinate with "field" type corn;I found out the hard way.Stagger your plantings dates.Makes for poor sweet corn if it crosses.