Do This to Grow Big Ears of Sweet Corn!

Are you growing any sweet corn this year? If so, what variety? SHOP LAZY DOG FARM FIG TREES: lazydogfarm.com/collections/fig-trees 0:00 Intro 0:35 Controlling Army Worms in Our Corn Plot 1:38 Weed Pressure in Our Corn Plot 2:37 How Much Fertilizer Does Corn Need? 7:01 Why Do We Hill Sweet Corn? 9:38 Checking on Our Raised Bed Potatoes

One of my chickens got out today and helped herself to some corn plants. I put her back in the run and within an hour she was out again. I found her escape route and hopefully stopped that. I have some composted chicken manure and that's all the fertilizer my corn has had so far. It's nice and green but I will be giving it some more when it gets taller. Everything but the flour we had for supper came from the garden and freezer. New potatoes, cabbage with sausage and some pork butt.

Notes I've collected for corn: count the leaf 'collars' for 'V' growth stage rather than an arbitrary plant height (so V1 is one leaf collar) ... During V1-V6 the plant needs to be competition-free (weeds or other too-close corn plants) to prevent yield loss. Number of Kernel Rows are set at V8, Ear length is set at V14 -- so poor rain/nutrients at those stages reduce yield. Plant consumers the most Nitrogen starting after V7 as well as seeking the most Potassium/Potash/K, and it needs Sulfur/sulfate/S leading into tasseling. (source: corn growth cycle chart 'weekly nutrients required to grow 400 bushel corn per acre'). Maybe that helps some folks.

I can't wait to see you process 3000 ears of corn all at once. That's going to be an event!

Crows are hard where i live but i love the twin row method, i tend to fill in with beans

Listen, my favorite part about this video is that I am watching it the day after my four year old discovered the cartilage in his ear and swore that he’s growing a second set of ears. The thumbnail declaring, “GROW BIG EARS!” Just made me laugh my entire face off. I swear I’m crying. 😂

Love your videos Travis! Thank you!! God bless you & yours!

Thank you Lazy Dog Farm for showing this much need to watch video. I never had much luck with 'hilling' the corn because the watering eroded the 'hilling' away leaving the corn plant exposed to high wind knock overs. So now I dig six inch deep ditches and plant the corn seed at the bottom of the ditches. Then as the corn grows, I rack in the dirt into the ditches which prevents erosion of the dirt. In fact over time the dirt solidifies around the base of the plant giving the plant added strength to withstand high winds. And it works very well because none of my corn plants get knocked over by high wind. I grow Silver King or Queen Sweet Corn.

Thanks for sharing your techniques, Travis. 👍

Just planted a pack of 25 corn seeds 2 days ago. 1st crop ever. We'll see how it goes. Thanks again.

Thanks so very much for sharing😊

Great timing on the video. Learned a lot today. Hopefully this helps my first corn plot be a success.

Bro appreciate it.. thanks for the information n it's a great video great channel keep it up

I love your videos your showing how to do many things I have not learned and something that I need a revise to! Great videos I hope you grow really fast!

I like the idea of double rows , I've never done that before.

Perfect timing. Going to plant 3 65' rows of corn today and then a second planting in a week or two. Should be enough for my wife and I. lol Also my taters are doing great too. Great video as always.

So impressed with everything you have accomplished. The cottage garden is awesome and will be beautiful! With multiple garden arreas the HoseLink would be awesome and make things so much easier to reach each. Thank you for everything you do.

well, we have a freezer full of sweet corn, so we are growing Some Dent corn this year. Last year I planted Jimmy Red, this year I planted Blue Hopi... all old seed that I've owned for years, and just never got around to planting. Was looking in on my corn a few minutes ago, and I see it's started germinating... I'm looking forward to a nice harvest of some wonderful blue corn.

Two years ago we had a whole legion of army worms in my area. It was very interesting on what they would eat and not. They love my grass root, some types of lettuce (not all), chopped down a pea plant, eat my green onions, but left my tomatoes, peppers, and cucumbers almost completely untouched. (Didn't have any corn up at the time).

Travis, love the videos. Have you ever looked into beneficial nematodes? They will get rid of a lot of garden pests.