How to Grow the Best Sweet Corn
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- Опубликовано: 7 сен 2024
- Growing a great crop of Sweet Corn is dependent on three things: pollination, water and fertilization. Therefore, all three are essential in growing the best sweet corn.
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You all got a beautiful plot of land and a lovely garden. Keep growing, brother.
Thanks Mike. We've been growing a garden in this spot for over 20 years. It's a good piece of land.
Ours did great this year also weve been planting the stowell evergreen for 7 years now and saving our seeds.Silver Queen is a great variety for sure.Loving our Hoss tools makes life a lot easier.We planted field peas today with the seeder made it so easy.
Glad y'all had a great corn year. Good luck with the field peas. It has become almost impossible to grow them down here because of the insect pressure.
Thank you. Brilliant video. It's so nice seeing a family all joining in. Your wife takes such good care of the corn. I bet it taste delicious. Great tips. 🌽🌽🌽🐓🐓
Thanks for watching! We sure do enjoy fresh sweet corn.
My wife and I are happy to hear that silver queen corn is your recommendation. Because that’s the variety I planted this year for the first time. I always used to do peaches and cream. Love your video thank you for the tips
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We love Siver Queen too! Great video ! Thanks for sharing and God Bless yall😊
Thanks for watching! Hope you have a great garden this year.
Awesome video! I like the tassel brush, looks useful!
Those are the best brushes for silking corn. That's what we've used our entire lives. They can be quite hard to find though. Thanks for watching.
Beautiful corn!!!Good video!!!
Thanks for watching David!
Love all the videos...wish you guys posted more! And btw, Mr "Push/Pull Hoe" came into my store here in Lancaster about this time last year and I'm the one that told him to get in touch with Hoss Tools ;)
Well, Thanks very much!. Its one of our best sellers.
Good videos. I just found them today. When you plant in blocks, what is the spacing between rows?
Typically corn is planted on 30" or 36" row spacings. Thanks for watching !
Do yourself a favor and try Gurney's seed ... sweet corn called "got to have it" it's a multi colored corn ... Yellow and white... I loved it
We are growing a bicolor variety called Ambrosia this year. We tried it at our demo garden last fall and it was delicious. Will take a look at the "got to have it" for next year. Thanks for watching!
Hoss Tools man I can't wait till next year.... just ordered the drip system and fertilizer injector... got the 2 gallon one... I'm not skimpy...I use to use a soaker hose and bicep 2 herbicide to control weeds... worked good but with hoss tool I wont need herbicide anymore
Hoss Tools my old man told me he could hear the corn growing but I couldn't lol went out in the middle of our 50 acre field and just heard the leaves rustling from the wind lol
Thanks for the update on corn mine I figure is about maybe 3 weeks from being ready I'm waiting on the silks to turn but I also think yr drip tape is something for sure that I'm doing next year to hard to use sprinkler don't feel it gets it like it should thanks for yr information and god bless
Drip tape is a MUST for us on corn. Saves so much water and time.
How close do you bury the drip tape next to the corn seeds? Judging from the video, it almost looked like you were planting the corn directly above the drip tape! Also, are all varieties of corn fertilized by the wind, or just sweet corn?
We bury the drip tape and then plant DIRECTLY on top of it with our Garden Seeder. All corn is wind-pollinated, that's why planting in a square is so important.
If you collect your corn when the plant is still green you can use the plants as green manure.
Great point! You can use a flail mower like you see in this video to make green manure out of the stalks: ruclips.net/video/xsbRrdnqFB8/видео.html
I've heard that corn really only needs nitrogen to grow well, so why the 20-20-20 and not just 20-0-0?
Wrong, corn needs several nutrients to grow well. It does need allot of nitrogen, Up to 8 units per 1000 sq. ft.
@@gardeningwithhoss Ok, I have a 200sqft area I'm going to try and grow sweet corn in this spring but my soil report came back as 122 phosphorus index and 20 potassium index with a PH of 5.4. What is the optimum PH and potassium levels for corn, since I don't think I'll be needed to add any phosphorus
What is your favorite yellow or bicolor sweet corn
We like Ambrosia and Peaches & Cream.
How often do you fertilize? I can’t plant in squares and just have a couple long rows So I just hand pollinate right?
We fertilize corn at least every two weeks. They like lots of nitrogen. You could take a stick and brush across the male flowers to help pollination.
How far apart are your rows and plants
Sweet corn is usually planted with rows 30" - 36" apart. The in-row spacing will depend on how much water you have. Using drip irrigation, you can plant it as close as 6". If you are using overhead watering, it's harder to deliver water to the plants. So you might want to do 8" - 12" in-row spacing in that case.
Ok thanks
shucking and brushing looked painful!
Not painful at all. It's actually quite enjoyable to see and feel the harvest. Thanks for watching!
So he said 35 years he's only grown four different varieties? Maple sugar hybrid.. sugar bun.. way too sweet makes you sick of corn!! Silver King can't even afford to buy the damn seeds anymore!! AMBROSIA ALL AROUND BEST! Bodacious is good but not so sweet. The makers of peaches and cream are robbing people used to be sweet! Honey and cream is garbage. Serendipity is super duper sweet but low germination rate. Candy King. (Not candy corn) can't even get the seeds anymore they cancel my orders when I order.. incredible variety. It's good if you got lots of nitrogen that sweetens corn! But you got to have the water and I flood irrigate every 6 days plus a couple. I could double this comment for all the varieties and things that I do to make the super corn I grow I hope. My life is on the thread about ready to die.....
We've grown Ambrosia the last couple years and were very happy with it, but always willing to try something new nowadays.
@@gardeningwithhoss Maple sugar hybrid. Ears are small and fat. Kernels are a little less tender. But as the package and the supplier said sugar levels beyond belief! I didn't buy any new seed this year. But I am trying to germinate second generation. Have not been successful yet? I pre germinate and I think I got 1 1/2 out of 150 seeds! But I think I didn't save my seed right..got wet and dry too many times?