#cornstar #latebloomer ~ I WILL be a CORNSTAR! My fourth and last planting of corn this year after raccoons devastated two stands. Two hours before rain comes and I’ve got to fly! Why and how I do it! City girl sharing life on my Tennessee homestead with #cats! Subscribe so you won’t miss out!
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YOU ARE ROYALTY! You wear Purple well my Lady! Bowing before now!👑It will be interesting to see if the Corn Queens labors are successful.
Cool pencil trick!
Please hit the thumbs up- Kaye’s positivity is her silver lining! This is so contagious and I for one am so thankful for her tenacity! Love you Kaye! Prayers for you and all you attempt to conquer! 😊
Tried talking my husband move to Tennessee .. he won't have it
You're awesome Kaye! TO WANDA! ❤
kornstar kaye works a whole lot ! i am amazed at the size and health of your gardens. i <3 your new plants!!!! stay hydrated, queen kornstar kaye 🤍🕊
My mom grew 14 foot tall sweet corn in the late 60s. Right here in Tennessee. You can too! We made barn yard tea. Fermented 50 gallon barrles filled with water all winter long and emptied into the garden before spring plowing. Plant beans with your corn for more nitrogen. You will be very happy.
Looks good Kaye, keeping my fingers crossed for you!
: ) It will be maize to see corn in time for fall; if not thinking, maybe corn whiskey to help warm the soul while watching some SIFI with a big bowl of popcorn! Good thing the letter P is not close to C ; )
I'll be honest in that I haven't even watched this video yet, but I am a bit put off by the title….Cornstar? Play on pornstar? Not very classy, in my opinion. Please don't be offended by opinion, I typically like your content very much.
Sending prayers that this planting will be a success for you Kaye! They are off to a good start and with a little cooperation from the weather, they will grow. Blessings for a wonderful week..
Good God, Girl! That's a lot of work and hard on the knees! For seedlings like that or onion seedlings, I use a Stand 'n Plant Seeder. If the transplant is bigger (tomatoes, cucumbers, squash, broccoli, etc.), I use a Stand 'n Plant Transplanter. No crawling on my knees to plant; no getting stung up by fire ants. I sure wish you'd install drip tape. Hand watering is SO hard! Planting is easy, too. Hoss suggests the FAD system: Furrow, Amend, Drip. Make a furrow with your double wheel hoe and plow set. Amend your furrow – this is where you put your fertilizers and compost. Install your drip tape and cover with your wheel hoe (I use the drip tape layer). You can then plant your seedlings either on or next to the drip tape. I use my Hoss seeder to plant corn – This year it took about an hour to prepare and plant 7 rows of corn, the actual planting took about 10 minutes. Beats working yourself to death! Remember – Work smart, not hard. That especially true as we get older.
One of my favorite YT ( farm)channel is Cole the Cornstar. Great guy with a great family.
God bless good neighbors. Hope you have success with this round of corn.
Take care
You were one of the first, if not the first, gardening channels that I started to watch way back in 2012 or 2013, I can't remember when I did start watching you. But at any rate, I never stop marveling at your tenacity, your persistance and your optimism. Your gardens are spectacular this year.
Yay for rain! And it DOES look great! You are such a trooper! I would have said, try again next year, which is what I'm doing. But I have a shorter growing season than you do.
Nice job. Best of luck on this planting!
OK. You said it. I can't help I have dyslexia. I was getting ready to help you w your career change.😂😂😂. Never mind.
I to am planting corn this week, we ended up with a pretty good harvest of our sweet corn, I got some seeds for blue jade corn and I’m going to plant. I’ve never grown it before but I’m giving it a try. It only gets 3 feet tall and should harvest before first frost date. I hope good luck for both of us 😊
Love this "wild idea!" Can't wait to see the progress, harvest, grinding, and using this Wapsi corn.
I really enjoyed the video ! Unless a rare freak frost comes really early this year you won't have an issue getting a harvest . Late planted corn will mature a lot faster than Spring planted corn . I can plant my heirloom corn and sweet corn as late as July 15th here in Indiana and have no problem getting a harvest . I have never transplanted corn before my back wouldn't go for that at all lol . I never plan out my gardens they just come to me at the time as well . Thanks for sharing and have a great day !
Kaye, you are such an inspiration to me. Whenever I am ready to give up gardening I watch you and you inspire me to keep going and trying. Prayers that your corn grows and produces well. My garden didn't do well at all. We have just been so hot this summer here in Southeast Georgia. I am planning on planting a few things to grow through the winter. God Bless You Always!
If a melon has a bite taken that is v shaped, it is turtles eaing them. That is usually the case. They will also take bites from tomatoes and cucmbers if they are on the ground where they can reach them.
If you haven't seen Cole the Cornstar channel, check him out! https://www.youtube.com/@ColeTheCornstar
You inspire
I like the tray and how well it worked.
Can't wait till the weather cools and we can see your beautiful blonde hair in the lower humidity and sunshine. Go Kaye!
I wish I could grow corn, to cold and we get summer winds up to 70+ m.p.h. here on the Oregon Coast.
I hope we will be seeing a video in the future,of you in the kitchen.Showing us what you are cooking with the flour corn🙂
God Bless
Donna
I loved your California home and garden. It was a delight, but I love your new homestead 🙏🥰
Kaye, you work so hard to make your gardens and homestead beautiful and I love seeing how happy it makes you. Your enthusiasm is infectious!
You must sleep like the dead Kaye…you work so hard…Bless your heart! Everything looks beautiful…🤗
Great looking corn starts! Your hard work is always amazing.. what a blessing that rain came in just in time they look beautiful. As long as the weather keeps cooperating you should do just fine 🙂 fantastic, video Kaye
LOVE IT! #CORNSTAR 😁
Oh my goodness, do I understand the raccoon frustration. My nemesis this year is Wally, my resident groundhog. Groundhogs are like garden vacuums. He took out some of my cabbages in spring, but the real devastation was my nine Cherokee Purples that I raised from seed and he took out ALL of them while they they were still green, starting with the big ones first. Then he moved on to strip the peppers of their leaves and the egg plants. I live on a tiny plot in a very large city very close to down town. In other words, the little critters are abundant everywhere. Your can do, never give up is way better than mine!❤️👏 (I decided if I continue to garden, I HAVE to have a strong infrastructure of fencing, sunk down into the ground and tapering out at the top by next year because there’s no need to go through all this time and work just to feed wildlife. (But I do have a soft spot for them as they try to survive.😂)
I wanted to share with you my experiment this summer with corn and it worked! We love "baby corn" like you get in the can but they are so expensive. I decided to grow the corn and harvest when they are anywhere from 4"-6" long and cut into bite size pieces. We harvested about 6 times from a row about 14' long and approx. forty 5-gallon buckets I grew in! Hey, whatever works is my motto! Good luck this time.
Hello kaye,what you are a beautiful star of the homestead ,,so jolly hard working. Please don't forget to top yourself up with some water or your special kambucha ect,,im jolly proud of you,yep everyone thumbs unfortunately kaye, wish we could use 2 thumb s to thumbs up..im bit lost for words,xxxx
Love te music ts perfect for you and your homestead 😊, God bless you 🙏.
I am anxious to see how the corn does!!
I bought a couple of cases of seedling flats 30 years ago and still use the trays and flats with 25 plugs and one with 75. Starting corn is very helpful if you are saving seed to miss cross pollinating with other corns as it is wind pollinated .It also helps to prevent crow damage. I plant 9-12" apart .It 's nice that it is already hilled too .I try to hill it twice . I pull a 6'furrow and drop seed about10"apart and put about 3" of compost ..then fill in the furrow with the first hilling and then again a few weeks later. I like to sow buckwheat and clover between the rows or mulch after the second hilling.. hilling keeps it from blowing down as well as the variety .I never use fertilizer or bought compost. We never used anything but stable manures on the farm where I grew up. We planted acres of field corn and us kids had to seed the empty spot by hand as well as hand hoe it all summer and hand shuck it in the fall .I grow Kentucky Rainbow flour corn and hand grind the meal with a Corona mill.. A coffee grinder works well too for small amounts . I offer the seeds well on my store listings.. seed is good for about4 years but edible for a lot longer ..
I love your videos. My daughter and I are planning on buying land 4x’s what you have. She wants sheep, I want chickens and a goat, also a HUGE garden. Thank you for inspiring. God bless.
I am getting consistent cucumbers from two of my three plants and the third is coming on. Also have Early Girl tomatoes planted from transplants in late April now fruiting and nearly ready. I also have celery trying to grow, onions trying to grow and the zucchini trying but no longer fruiting for a few weeks since the big heat wave. I also have three very tiny peppers that germinated a couple of weeks ago despite being planted in early April from seed. The little volunteer watermelon has given me three softball sized melons which is what the variety does – planted 3 years ago and reseeded by itself. That is how it seems to go here. Glad you are battling the critters. We have construction next door as the vacant lots are getting built upon for two new homes and that may send critters here – hope not.
Kaye all looks so lush and green!!
That’s some rain! The flour corn looks good, so I’m praying it does well for you. Think I would put a tall fence around it and a string of Hotwire above that. That was a lot of work!
I know you have lights and radio, just sayin.
Yes, and I love the saying, "If your plan doesn't work, change the plan, not the goal". Looking forward to following the Painted Wapsie!
"Never give up, never surrender" is a darned good life motto. My Dad, ages ago (like , last millennium 😝) raised me on his grandfather's motto. "Never say 'I can't' until you've done it three times and proved you can't."