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Here i have over 60 corn plants in a space of 4x10. If you live in the south, you're probably thinking this is late spring. No, this corn was planted in July. My reasoning for planting it this time of year is all the bugs who invade corn life cycle is now over. Plant in the spring and you'll either have to spray to keep the worms out, or, just live with the worms. Planting in July gets you out of that corn worm life cycle and bug free corn. The only thing you'll need to make sure you do is water the corn. I have a automatic drip system, easily installed and cheap, on this corn. I have it set for 5 minutes twice a day. I planted, and waited. Off these 60 plants, i got over 80 ears of bug free corn and it never had anything applied to it in the form of insecticide.
I dont remember the variety, but it was a white and yellow sweet corn. I plan to plant twice as much this year so that i can can up a bunch also. I preserved the corn in the husk and just dropped them in the deep freeze. We are still eating corn and probably wont finish it before i'm ready to store more. I didnt can any up last year, so looking forward to this year.
Here i have over 60 corn plants in a space of 4x10. If you live in the south, you're probably thinking this is late spring. No, this corn was planted in July. My reasoning for planting it this time of year is all the bugs who invade corn life cycle is now over. Plant in the spring and you'll either have to spray to keep the worms out, or, just live with the worms. Planting in July gets you out of that corn worm life cycle and bug free corn. The only thing you'll need to make sure you do is water the corn. I have a automatic drip system, easily installed and cheap, on this corn. I have it set for 5 minutes twice a day. I planted, and waited. Off these 60 plants, i got over 80 ears of bug free corn and it never had anything applied to it in the form of insecticide.
I dont remember the variety, but it was a white and yellow sweet corn. I plan to plant twice as much this year so that i can can up a bunch also. I preserved the corn in the husk and just dropped them in the deep freeze. We are still eating corn and probably wont finish it before i'm ready to store more. I didnt can any up last year, so looking forward to this year.