Good post. Even though we eat a fair amount of corn in the summer this is one vegetable I don't grow. I guess mainly because it doesn't really fit into raised bed gardening as well as planting in a field. It's also a heavy feeder so manure is probably helpful with corn. Following...
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Oh yes, it takes a lot of fertilizer! I side dress the rows with composted horse, chicken, goat, or steer manure and foliar feed the corn with seaweed and kelp emulsion multiple times, but the end product is sooo very yummy! I only do about a 15X20' patch each year. My disabled friend had her husband build her 4X4' boxes and she grows enough corn for her family of five in 4 boxes, she plants the corn really close together in straight composted horse manure, I'll try find a picture of it growing, it looks like a giant chia pet, lol! Followed you too!!!
Is that right? All that corn in a 4x4 box? I may have to rethink this. Is there a particular variety she grows?
I know one type that she grew was a seventy-five day variety that her dad gave her a bunch of, but any cold tolerant, maturing variety should work.