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An amazing and audacious experiement, growing sweet corn in lawn.

My neighbour, who has the run off where I plant a crop of sweet corn
every season, has finally decided at 93 that it is time he moved in
to a rest home. The house is going on the market. No growing in his
garden this year.

My existing raised gardens are fully at present.

So, I have grown sweet corn seedlings and planted them into the lawn.

First I scalped the grass with the lawn mower. I dug a slit into the
soil, like planters do when planting pine trees, and placed the SC
seedlings into the slit and then closed it back up.

The soil is loamy and because it was undisturbed lawn, has good
structure. The soil should be fertile and have enough nutrients in
it.

It may need to be irrigated more regularly than in a garden but I can
take care of that.

Anyone have any comments or advice?


Does your neighbor mind, or are you trespassing? No mention of
PERMISSION being given.

Well, if permission was not granted by Roy to use his gardens for
growing, the alternative is that I simply marched over there every
summer, planted a crop, watched it grow, watered it and harvested it.

Which of these do you think is most feasible?

I don't need permission to plant corn in my lawn (except agreement from
my wife - which was given). I did consult myself about planting in my
lawn and naturally I agreed with myself.

rob

Well rob-george, that explains it. Your first post was not at all
clear.

It was quite clear.

to most people but some found it a little ambiguous. Made sense in my mind
as I wrote it, but that doesn't necessarily indicate very much.

:-)) Yes, I know what you mean. I initially wondered why you mentioned
your neighbour getting the benefit of your run off, but once you mentioned
that he was old and going into care and wouldn't be gardening this year, I
figured out that you must have been feeling some sympathy for a fellow
gardener having to give up his garden. How far off the mark am I?