That corn under the feeder could be Field Corn and I think another name for it is Dent Corn and I would not recommend using that to pollinate as your eating corn could be tough and tasteless. It would be better to snip a few tassels of your eating corn and pollinate with that and do it on 3 different days a couple of days apart. My 5 rows are 12’ long with 2 plants per hill 1’ apart and I may get 2 ears per plant for a total of 120 ears of good eating sweet corn...
Corn roast at the Benders' in August!
I’m planning to expand my corn patch next year. The current effort is an experiment, just one hill. Maybe next year I can have 4!