2020 Corn Planting
- Thread starter cutman
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I have a 3 strand electric fence around the sweet corn. It’s worked to keep the deer out but coons are getting in. I drove out to the farm after work last night to set some traps - hopefully they work.
j-bird
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That is wild.....I just got corn in the ground last weekend. Even the good corn around here is still not a foot tall. The one bad thing about corn is everything wants to eat it. Either it wants to eat the seed out of the ground or as soon as it starts to fill the ear...... I find corn cobs and the husks pulled up in trees around my place all the time from coons and squirrels.
farmhunter
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the first year we put sweet corn in - it did great -
the second year we had cutworms in the stalks and they would just tip over.
I never tried it again after that
looks great!
the second year we had cutworms in the stalks and they would just tip over.
I never tried it again after that
looks great!
Mennoniteman
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Corn on the cob, dripping with salt and melted butter. The Pennsylvania Dutch tradition is to eat it young, not old and tough. Now that's what you call "eatin fresh" or "fressa" as we say in Dutch.
Almost ready to pick. Old timers say that when 7 out of 10 cobs float, it’s ready to pick. 6/10 are floating here.
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farmhunter
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new one for me - love those old sayings
Started picking this afternoon after work. Took an hour to grease up the picker and oil all the chains, then I headed out into the field.
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MarkDarvin
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That is cool! I miss the old ways of doin stuff. When I was a kid, one of my jobs when we were picking was to pull husks off as they came onto the elevator. No way in hell kids would be allowed to put their hands into farm equipment like that today.
