Growing Corn can be challenging, when attempting to grow using non conventional methods. In this video I will share what I have learned through my gardening journey on growing corn to help you and I get the best small little harvest we can get. Oh, and we’ll replant some beets too ♥
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33 Comments
But i am thinking i need to hill my tomato plants today..them stems are huge!
Water your beets everyday
And plant early w lettuce
grow more flowers in your empty spaces, always plant a few flower seeds every week in 6 packs, mature date bloom before first frost,
I have never done this, but watching your video, I am curious, does anyone ever use flower netting to help their corn stocks with the wind? It seems to me that they would still be able to blow enough to wind pollinate but perhaps it would stop them from falling over…Some sort of flower netting such as you would use on a bed of zinnias🤷🏻♀️
https://youtu.be/DYbe7tYzHQQ
corn support idea
Hi Rachel, another great video. You are amazing and thanks so much for allowing us to travel along with the garden adventures. Really enjoy the videos and the content. I appreciate you being transparent and real with the different results and adventures. Happy plantings and growing's! A wave from Rockford, MI
I try to soak all my seeds and I find it does make a difference in germination rate. It helps a lot for root crops that are hit or miss out here in the AZ desert.
I stuck some Indian corn seeds in a my bucket garden this year, just to see what would happen. In fact I just did it last week. Lol If you’re not experimenting in the garden….why not?! 😉
I had great success in growing corn with bush beans. I planted mid/end of summer. Which I never knew you could grow corn so late. Just counted back from last frost date for the verity of corn. I think it was Bantam verity. Read/ heard it was good because you didn’t have to worry about the worms getting into your corn. But also the corn is not as big but still nice. Now why you can’t get beets to grow I do not know. I just stick them in the ground…hm, I do grow Detroit reds. I hope your seed soaking helps. 👩🏼🌾🌽
nice video
Loving your hair!!! You look amazing! 🙂
Love the birds talking! 😊
I put a 5" plank over my sewn beet, carrot and turnip seeds and get fantastic germination. I remove it when I see 1/4" growth.
Thank you for sharing the status of your beets. I have not had much success either. I have a handful of pathetic looking ones, the other seeds didn't germinate. So I have planted more and can see it coming in. I am hoping that at least we can eat the greens…
Just plant the beets and thin. Detroit reds are the variety I've always planted. Beets like sandy soil. I used to grow HUGE beets in Ct's sandy soil. They dont like compact soils like onions.
Hi Rachel,
The best success I’ve ever had with my beetroots is by doing similar to what Charles Dowding does…. at the end of Summer I multi-sow beetroot seeds into punnets and raise them until they are clusters of bushy little seedlings. Then I plant them out (in their clusters) just before winter and over-winter them in the ground. My beetroot are bigger than my Husband’s fist, and I usually get 3 seperate harvests over Summer before they start bolting, twisting out the biggest beetroot each time and leaving others in the cluster to have their own turn to swell bigger. Now, where I live in Australia the lowest temps are around 19-23 Fahrenheit, so not as cold as you guys, but I do get hard frosts for over 6 months of the year!
So for you, with your snow I would suggest raising them indoors from seeds during winter when you are raising your tomatoes. That way you can plant them out as soon as the ground has defrosted! They are fine in frost (not snow, mind), so should be the very first thing that you plant out every year after your snow melts as they do like a long growing season to get to maximum size before bolting.
I hope you try it out!
You have a such a pretty place to enjoy the peace and quiet. To gather your thoughts.
I have a hard time with growing beets too, I love beets and I'll get a handful ti pop up here and there but not everything that I sow dose, my mother-in-law on the other hand she doesn't have any issues she says with growing beets, and I asked her what is the trick and she said loose soil and she mixes in sand and I said sand why do you mix in sand and she says to help with the drainage of the water I don't know I might give that a try and see if that works maybe you could try mixing in some sand and see if that helps.
How do you use beets? Other than salad, I'm at a loss.
how close are your corn pants?
We do a small plot in our raised bed garden and I always put a stake or tpost on either end of my corn rows (or on one end if the fence is on one end) and put 2 strands of string woven between the stalks to keep them standing up. I do a string at about 12" tall, go back and forth across one way between the stalks, loop around the post, then go the opposite way weaving back and forth between the stalks. I do this again at about 2-3'tall. You can always move the bottom row up the stalks if you want. I like 2 rows so that way they don't get blown over and do somersaults in the garden like a windmill 😂. I have never had any trouble with my corn getting blown over and we have some high winds and rains on top of this hill we are on…..thanks for sharing about the hilling, never heard of that for anything other than potatoes! BTW, we just harvested 700+ lbs of red potatoes the last 2 days! Thanks again Rachel! ❤️Kacy
Great to see you in the garden your an inspiration each video thanks.
Thank you for sharing the good, the bad and all lessons in between! I just watched a Garden Answer video and Laura mentioned putting up, I think, cattle panels. She does 3 rows then a space, 3 rows then a space and they get some wicked wind. I don't know if she will do 1 panel for a 3 row spot maybe in the middle and that secures that 3 row chunk. Might be worth looking at her channel. I am gardening at a much smaller scale than you are but your bravery and wanting to experiment with new things is rubbing off on me, I am already thinking of what I might do differently next year. Thank you for the inspiration!
I just found you, I'm so glad you have so much knowledge
just found your channel ! So enjoy the advice, comments, .conversation and humor ! We share rhe same weather, ( north of Jackson, mich,) this is our first year with a serious attempt at corn planting
Some varieties of tomatoes are more prone to the fasciated blossoms than others. Berkeley pink tie dye donut a lot, but I still love growing them. I’ll usually leave a couple to grow and removed excessive ones.
I work at DTW its definitely picking back up. I wish people would go back to work. Were so wore out. But I managed to get some time and did a potted garden. Mostly peppers lol. I admire your garden. Maybe we'll see you at blocks one day 🙂
Hi there Rachel , as Tricia Rosamilia said , place a steak at each corner and make a string trellis , it works… I love when you give us these fun tours of the gardens and property , the garden is so well cared for . Working hard on my garden and doing new things this year , lots of fun for my hubby and my self. Thank you for your self..
I put a t post on each corner and wrap rope around them to support them from falling over
Beets love blood meal too. I’m learning to grow corn in small amounts. It’s popcorn for my 7 year old. We’ll see how it goes 🤞
As an experiment I planted more corn at the beginning of July. It has already shot ip to about 8 inches tall. I do have a long growing season. I live in Georgia. I planted a few other things as well.