Your 2026 Garden

[dirkandlorie]

beds are in!
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Beautiful!!!!

 

[dirkandlorie]

With the corn loving nitrogen so much the thing that I found that works is the shedding of a eucalyptus tree.

Thank you for your tip. I can work extra nitrogen into the soil, don't have eucalyptus here unfortunately, but this is the kind of info I need. Growing conditions, soil amendments, pest and predator protection. What's worked for our growing friends/fellow gardners.

 

[dirkandlorie]

We sometimes get it in from a farmer neighbor. If you have one nearby, ask them for some. If it's not sweet enough when you cook it, just add a teaspoon or two of sugar to a few gallons of water and boil it. Our farmers' corn tastes great, so we didn't do that, but Mom used to.

We love having our own frozen corn, so even though we're trimming down our garden, corn isn't one we will eliminate.

We always plant two kinds and usually go to TSC to pick out two with harvest dates 7+ days apart.

In the fall, any cobs not harvested by us are picked and hung in a gunny sack in the garden shed for feeding squirrels, etc., in the winter.

We call the neighbor who comes with his truck and scythes the stalks for his sheep.

So, there's no way we wouldn't plant it.

Hit every farm stand I could find, no super sweet corn, just regular. So you buy corn already started at TSC, instead of direct sowing? And do you know if deer would like the corn cobs, I love feeding the deer over the winter.

 

[pollipazzi]

Beautiful!!!!

thank you

 

[jxp]

Peach trees is blossoming, guaranteed we're going to get a frost in the next couple of weeks. I may as well hang out fresh laundry and call down a thunderstorm, too.
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After the internet forecast called for an overnight low of 42F, my house's weather station told me it was 28 this morning.

If there's not a repeat, perhaps the yet to open peach blossoms may still have a chance to produce fruit.

 

[fuzzi]

This is going to be my first year of growing corn. I've always felt it took up too much space and was so cheap to buy that I didn't bother. Last year I couldn't find my favorite super sweet corn anywhere, just regular, so I bought nothing. No corn, all year, waah! I need all the advice I can get from y'all to ensure I don't go through another year of no corn. After 50 years of growing food, I am a newbie again. Help me please!

Corn is pollinated by wind, so plant the corn close. Use short rows, and interplant with pole beans, so they climb the stalks. Some people plant squash around the corn as well.

 

[Debbie292d]

With the corn loving nitrogen so much the thing that I found that works is the shedding of a eucalyptus tree.

That'd be great if we had such a thing. We just add horse poop from the neighbor and deal with all those weeds.

 

[Debbie292d]

beds are in!
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Gosh, how pretty even with just dirt thus far! Nice job!

 

[Debbie292d]

Hit every farm stand I could find, no super sweet corn, just regular. So you buy corn already started at TSC, instead of direct sowing? And do you know if deer would like the corn cobs, I love feeding the deer over the winter.

Oh no, it's packs of seeds.

Deer LOVE corn. I should have mentioned them instead of squirrels.

 

[StarOnFire59]

This is going to be my first year of growing corn. I've always felt it took up too much space and was so cheap to buy that I didn't bother. Last year I couldn't find my favorite super sweet corn anywhere, just regular, so I bought nothing. No corn, all year, waah! I need all the advice I can get from y'all to ensure I don't go through another year of no corn. After 50 years of growing food, I am a newbie again. Help me please!

I tried to grow corn last year here. Not again. Stalks grew, but as the ears were forming they developed bugs that ate almost all the kernels. I threw them towards the chickens. I figured they could eat the bugs. Betty really likes bugs & pulling earthworms out of the ground.