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

It's called pasture cropping. It can be very useful if you have stock as
you have the option of taking a harvest or giving it to the stock depending
on how the season goes. I haven't heard of it being done with corn though.
I suspect you will get some competition in your case so the corn (which is a
heavy feeder) may not be luxurious but still I would be interested to know
how it turns out.

David