I wish I was planting corn again this year. I tried it just for fun a couple of years ago - did a very small patch - and really enjoyed watching it grow. The kernels didn’t all fill, but I think it was the sweetest corn ever. Heirloom, bantum - or something like that I think.
This year hubby and I are planting just the things was use a lot of. Since our garden is not big at all, I won’t put corn in this year.
Our tomatoes are yet to be transplanted - upstate NY don’t ya know :). I started them from seed about three weeks late, but they are coming along OK if a bit slowly. All heirloom, which I am going to guess is partly why they come on slowly from seed. This is our first year of planting only from seed for tomatoes also. One variety took nearly four weeks just to sprout! I had given up on those, LOL, and then one day - there they were.
My peach tree is popping - which surprises due to the weird changes in weather. I’m netting individual peaches so that I can be sure to get enough to do a batch of jam. Last year the critters got every single peach.
He was growing tomatoes, and potatoes are cheap, so that left corn on the cob as the missing part of the trio. My daughter had purchased a book on square foot gardening, which I borrowed and read.
I started with a 3 ft. x 8 ft bed next to the patio. Filled with non-soil based on Mel's mix instructions. Planted half of the raised bed with dwarf(sort of) corn, with 4 seeds per square foot. Interspersed beans and watermelon in the rest, and a little lettuce, carrots, and onions.
Hubby was totally skeptical of the whole thing: Soil mix will never work. Plants are too close together etc. etc. Corn did sooo well he decided he could plant some the next year.
He also converted his first garden patch into 3 x 30 ft. raised beds, with a little space to walk in between the beds. He doesn't use Mel's recipe though.LOL.
Weather in Missouri can be kinda problematic too. The new zone map has us in zone 6 now, where we used to be zone 5. Did your zone change too?
Good luck with your gardening efforts this year.
He was growing tomatoes, and potatoes are cheap, so that left corn on the cob as the missing part of the trio. My daughter had purchased a book on square foot gardening, which I borrowed and read.
I started with a 3 ft. x 8 ft bed next to the patio. Filled with non-soil based on Mel's mix instructions. Planted half of the raised bed with dwarf(sort of) corn, with 4 seeds per square foot. Interspersed beans and watermelon in the rest, and a little lettuce, carrots, and onions.
Hubby was totally skeptical of the whole thing: Soil mix will never work. Plants are too close together etc. etc. Corn did sooo well he decided he could plant some the next year.
He also coverted his first garden patch into 3 x 30 ft. raised beds, with a little space to walk in between the beds. He doesn't use Mel's recipe though.LOL.
Weather in Missouri can be kinda problematic too. The new zone map has us in zone 6 now, where we used to be zone 5. Did your zone change too?
Good luck with your gardening efforts this year. Tubebender, how are you doing? I haven't had an direct exchange with you for a coon's age seems like. I am sooo glad that Missouri weather allow me to do a lot of direct planting, and still have a long enough season to obtain a good harvest.