Bodacious corn growing

[AgnesGray]

When we bought our house last year, we found a bag of bodacious corn in the freezer and this spring we planted it. I have looked online at growing times, etc, but can anyone tell me visually how I will know that corn is ready for harvest? Will it suffer if I leave it on the stalk? Any other tips?

We plan to harvest and directly can any that look good and dry for feed if they do not look good.

 

[archeryrob]

I think that is a sweet corn and I have dried some for seeds before and sweet corn shrives to nothing when dry. It in no way looks like field corn when dry. I don't think its going to feed chickens or farm animals dry.

 

[AgnesGray]

Yes, it is a sweet corn. Any way to turn it into feed? Maybe removing it from the cob and freezing it? We also have an indian seed corn plot that has minuscule ears on just some of the plants.

The cobs are small and that plot of ground is going to need amending before we plant anything else there in spite of years of rest, but I don't want what is there to go to waste.

 

[archeryrob]

You can feed it to the chickens fresh or frozen. Dried it looks like this as the water is a huge part in sweet corn. I have feed leftover freezer corn to the chickens. I also feed anything but bread to them. My wife is notorious for ditching fridge or old cans of sauce or beans. I open them and toss into the chicken pen or compost and they rummage it.

If you want to grow corn for chicken feeding get some corn from the feed store or some deer corn and feed that and plant some next year. Just let it dried brown and when the earn start hanging down pull them.

 

[AgnesGray]

You can feed it to the chickens fresh or frozen. Dried it looks like this as the water is a huge part in sweet corn. I have feed leftover freezer corn to the chickens. I also feed anything but bread to them. My wife is notorious for ditching fridge or old cans of sauce or beans. I open them and toss into the chicken pen or compost and they rummage it.

If you want to grow corn for chicken feeding get some corn from the feed store or some deer corn and feed that and plant some next year. Just let it dried brown and when the earn start hanging down pull them.

Great info! Thanks for this!