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Sweet corn grown in lawn
"Brooklyn1" Gravesend1 wrote in message ... "Pico Rico" wrote: Now I understood it that he had permission to garden in his neighbor's yard, and no longer has that permission, and apparently the old man had not been gardening for some time. So, you see the ambiguity yourself. anyway, the second post cleared up the confusion some of us had, and now my interest about the real subject at hand is piqued. What would that be, piqueo-rico? HA! Actually, I don't know why, the first question that comes to mind is how big is the lawn area devoted to the corn test? |
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Sweet corn grown in lawn
George wrote:
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? Rob I've never tried that, but I know that farmers put a lot of effort (and chemicals) into keeping grass out of their corn fields. I don't know if it is because the grass would interfere with their harvesters, or would compete for nutrients in the soil. I think corn is a crop that requires a lot of nutrients; I fertilize mine heavily. Now I just need something to dissuade the racoons from eating my corn before it is ripe. |
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Sweet corn grown in lawn
On Mon, 01 Nov 2010 12:47:18 -0400, Notat Home wrote:
George wrote: 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? Rob I've never tried that, but I know that farmers put a lot of effort (and chemicals) into keeping grass out of their corn fields. I don't know if it is because the grass would interfere with their harvesters, or would compete for nutrients in the soil. I think corn is a crop that requires a lot of nutrients; I fertilize mine heavily. Now I just need something to dissuade the racoons from eating my corn before it is ripe. I know that corn has very deep roots so needs to be planted in deeply tilled soil... I suspect planting corn in a compacted lawn wouldn't yield much of a crop. http://www.extension.org/pages/Corn_Roots http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases...0709091232.htm |
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"Brooklyn1" Gravesend1 wrote in message ... On Mon, 01 Nov 2010 12:47:18 -0400, Notat Home wrote: George wrote: 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? Rob I've never tried that, but I know that farmers put a lot of effort (and chemicals) into keeping grass out of their corn fields. I don't know if it is because the grass would interfere with their harvesters, or would compete for nutrients in the soil. I think corn is a crop that requires a lot of nutrients; I fertilize mine heavily. Now I just need something to dissuade the racoons from eating my corn before it is ripe. I know that corn has very deep roots so needs to be planted in deeply tilled soil... I suspect planting corn in a compacted lawn wouldn't yield much of a crop. that is a significant point. Exactly what 'compacted soil' amounts to I am not sure. It may describe my lawn. The soil itself has good structure and a good foot or more of nice loam. It is actually good soil. The lawn has not been disturbed for several decades and has a good number of earth worms. As far as lawn grown soil, it can't get much better. In other words, I am making an assumption that if I water it properly and give it enough nutrition it should be ok. In reality no one can quite guess how it will turn out. rob |
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