Worst year for corn ever

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Susie David

Susie David

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Weather didn't warm until June...then right in the middle of germination we had a frost.
The plants that did survive were slow to grow but are making progress...until...a cow moose has moved in the neighborhood, crazy animal got confused by a gate and took out a corner post after taking a stroll through the corn. Looks like someone went through with a swather five feet wide, took six inches off the plants everywhere she wandered.
May just fence the field and have a cow picnic.
Just my two bits worth....Dave Mc
 
One year the neighbor's cattle got out and went through my dad's garden. things were almost ready to be picked, but cattle took care of that, and my dad was PO.

Hope it gets better in your area, and that moose moves along, quickly. :shock:
 
Odd year, for sure.

Silver Queen went in first, in late April. it was up maybe a foot or so by the time we put in the bicolor in mid/late May. Just as soon as we put the bicolor in the ground, the rain STOPPED. Didn't rain for about two weeks after that, was hot, and we eventually slipped into "extreme drought" status.

Somehow, the bicolor germinated and grew -- with hardly any rain. Just as it was beginning to tassle, we started getting regular rain again. Good rain, timed just right for the bicolor..

Too late for the silver queen, though. It ended up putting on skinny, 4" +/- ears with sparse "hillbilly teeth" kernels. Needless to say, it's totally worthless. The bicolor is really spectacular, though. Big, full ears.

Coons were getting into it pretty bad until our border collie figured out what was going on. Her life's work -- for the moment, anyway -- is keeping coons out of the garden. Like a lot of working dogs, she gets pretty neurotic about making sure her job is being done once she decides what her job should be.

Needless to say, we've not discouraged her. :lol:
 

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