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Postby Beveridge » Sun Jul 17, 2022 3:04 pm

The first hole I see in my garden or yard, I’m calling the trapper to have him relocated to Philly.
Send him to that neighbor you were talking about the other day.

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Postby NTP66 » Sun Jul 17, 2022 3:07 pm

The first hole I see in my garden or yard, I’m calling the trapper to have him relocated to Philly.
Send him to that neighbor you were talking about the other day.
Too close. At any rate, he actually lives in the yard two houses away from that piece of ****. Hopefully it digs a hole under his house and he’s sucked into the middle off the earth.

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Postby NTP66 » Fri Jul 22, 2022 3:53 pm

Our 3rd bedroom smells quite lovely right now.

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Postby count2infinity » Sun Jul 31, 2022 3:59 pm

We just harvest our first few ears of corn form what we were growing in pots in our backyard. I didn’t think this was gonna work, but they look great. Getting ready to cook them and will report back on results.

I don’t know if any of you have eaten corn within minutes or even an hour or two of harvest, but it’s incredible. Timing is everything with getting the best out of it. You wait 6-8 hours to cook it and it’s already lost some of its pop, let alone days.

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Postby King Colby » Sun Jul 31, 2022 8:25 pm

I was thinking about trying to grow some next year. Easy?

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Postby count2infinity » Sun Jul 31, 2022 8:30 pm

It was great. Took me back to the days of living on the farm. Kid had corn on the cob. I cut mine off the cob and cooked it with peppers, onions, and zucchini for tacos.

It was super easy. We got 4 giant pots from Sam’s club. Each one holds pretty much a whole bag of soil (the bigger ones). My wife planted it around the edge of the pot with marigolds in the center. Apparently the marigolds keep the critters away. Beyond watering it, we did nothing.

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Postby mac5155 » Sun Jul 31, 2022 8:49 pm

Yeah sweet corn from the field is amazing. In the mornings you can pick and eat it right there without even boiling it.

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Postby LITT » Mon Aug 01, 2022 8:30 am

It was great. Took me back to the days of living on the farm. Kid had corn on the cob. I cut mine off the cob and cooked it with peppers, onions, and zucchini for tacos.

It was super easy. We got 4 giant pots from Sam’s club. Each one holds pretty much a whole bag of soil (the bigger ones). My wife planted it around the edge of the pot with marigolds in the center. Apparently the marigolds keep the critters away. Beyond watering it, we did nothing.
how many ears does a stalk produce?

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Postby mac5155 » Mon Aug 01, 2022 9:03 am

Usually 1. 2 if you're lucky.

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Postby King Colby » Mon Aug 01, 2022 9:11 am

Looks like you can plant em roughly 4" apart in a grid-like formation. Maybe I'll do like a 2x2 grid next year and see how it goes.

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Postby mac5155 » Mon Aug 01, 2022 9:58 am

You do need to plant them relatively close to each other, like you can't just plant one or two plants, because they have to pollinate each other. Though I don't know why you'd just plant one or two but yeah lol

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Postby count2infinity » Mon Aug 01, 2022 10:30 am

It was great. Took me back to the days of living on the farm. Kid had corn on the cob. I cut mine off the cob and cooked it with peppers, onions, and zucchini for tacos.

It was super easy. We got 4 giant pots from Sam’s club. Each one holds pretty much a whole bag of soil (the bigger ones). My wife planted it around the edge of the pot with marigolds in the center. Apparently the marigolds keep the critters away. Beyond watering it, we did nothing.
how many ears does a stalk produce?
Looks like most stalks of this stuff has 2 ears. We got about 8-10 stalks per container, and we did 4 containers.

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Postby LITT » Mon Aug 01, 2022 10:32 am

It was great. Took me back to the days of living on the farm. Kid had corn on the cob. I cut mine off the cob and cooked it with peppers, onions, and zucchini for tacos.

It was super easy. We got 4 giant pots from Sam’s club. Each one holds pretty much a whole bag of soil (the bigger ones). My wife planted it around the edge of the pot with marigolds in the center. Apparently the marigolds keep the critters away. Beyond watering it, we did nothing.
how many ears does a stalk produce?
Looks like most stalks of this stuff has 2 ears. We got about 8-10 stalks per container, and we did 4 containers.
which containers did you buy? i'm very intrigued now

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Postby count2infinity » Mon Aug 01, 2022 10:47 am

My wife got them at Sam's Club early in the season. They're the big 22" ones, likely similar to this: https://www.samsclub.com/p/22in-mystiqu ... od19180060

She got 2 blue ones, 2 white/ivory ones. They each fit one 55 quart bag of soil pretty much perfectly.

And then when the stalks are dead, we'll have fall decorations to use!

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Postby mac5155 » Mon Aug 01, 2022 11:00 am

I have about 5 of those containers outside with shrubs in them. They're a very nice pot and decently priced. They also had whiskey barrel looking ones for the same price if that is more your aesthetic.

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Postby LITT » Mon Aug 01, 2022 11:33 am

My wife got them at Sam's Club early in the season. They're the big 22" ones, likely similar to this: https://www.samsclub.com/p/22in-mystiqu ... od19180060

She got 2 blue ones, 2 white/ivory ones. They each fit one 55 quart bag of soil pretty much perfectly.

And then when the stalks are dead, we'll have fall decorations to use!
you have 8 stalks of corn in one of these?

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Postby King Colby » Mon Aug 01, 2022 11:33 am

I have a bunch of whisky barrel ones that are pretty nice. I put casters on them too which was genius.

Ugh, my wife spends 2 billion dollars on cornstalk decorations every year. My favorite part is the cleanup (car, yard, etc)

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Postby LITT » Mon Aug 01, 2022 11:34 am

I put casters on them too which was genius.
#humblebrag

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Postby count2infinity » Mon Aug 01, 2022 11:36 am

My wife got them at Sam's Club early in the season. They're the big 22" ones, likely similar to this: https://www.samsclub.com/p/22in-mystiqu ... od19180060

She got 2 blue ones, 2 white/ivory ones. They each fit one 55 quart bag of soil pretty much perfectly.

And then when the stalks are dead, we'll have fall decorations to use!
you have 8 stalks of corn in one of these?
Yup. I'll take some pics at lunch and post when I get back to the office.

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Postby LITT » Mon Aug 01, 2022 11:41 am

nice. when do you even start corn seedligns?

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Postby mac5155 » Mon Aug 01, 2022 12:04 pm

There is a cornfield approximately 38 steps from my front door.

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Postby count2infinity » Mon Aug 01, 2022 1:33 pm

nice. when do you even start corn seedligns?
I snagged a pic, but it's a pain to upload. There are about 10 stalks in each pot. Some are big, some are small, so it should probably be more like 7-8 in each. Each stalk has about 2 ears of corn on it. They're all currently in silk and we did nothing to pollinate them... just let the wind and bugs do their thing.

I checked my wife's garden notes. She planted the corn May 20th. We just picked our first ears last night. Her planting was just kernels into the dirt.

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Postby LITT » Mon Aug 01, 2022 1:54 pm

damn ok thats awesome

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Postby King Colby » Mon Aug 01, 2022 2:19 pm

Pretty neat. I was reading today that you can start seeds inside 4 weeks before the last frost, or outside 1 week before the last frost.

I'll probably do some succession planting next year and go for maybe a grid of 6 stalks by 6 stalks.

What variety did you use?

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Postby count2infinity » Mon Aug 01, 2022 2:28 pm

It was this: https://www.burpee.com/corn-on-deck-hyb ... 03168.html

The reviews that are bad all talk about bad germination rate. I don't know what they did wrong because all of ours took.

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