Comments on: How to Grow Corn

on 5/18/2009 i live in the south and have 19 corn plants growing we just had a large storm come through with lots of wind some of my plants got blown sideways but not uprooted should i put stakes in the ground are will the problem fix it self

on 4/15/2009 I am wondering why you fertilize using Chemicals that are what you call organic rather than less fuel consuming and less labor intensive concentrated nutrients. Is it that these "organic" products produce healthier corn for eating. All scientific studies show that no less healthier foods are produced from concentrated nutrients if all information is known and applied. I would think that a healthy plant would have more nutrition compared to one that has some nutrients missing by using the teas you describe.

on 8/1/2008 How many ears of corn does one plant produce?

When a ear of corn is harvested from a plant, doe that stimulate the plant to produce more ears?

on 7/28/2008 I live in Southern California and really enjoy the sweet corn from the new england area when we visit in the summer. We brought back a couple ears of that corn. Can we use it for seed, and if so, how?

on 6/22/2008 I live in northern California. When is the best time to plant corn/

on 6/22/2008 I live in northern California. When is the best time to plant corn?

on 3/4/2008 Soak the ears in water for twenty minutes, remove "dangling leaves" and excess silk, place on a hot charcoal grill, turn the ears as they brown just short of burning, peel off a layer of browned leaves and roast again. When you're down to the last layer, either pull them off, strip off the last leaves and the silk, butter and eat. You might try letting a row or two blacken a little for a pop-corn like flavor.

on 6/4/2007 Don't BOIL corn, it reduces both the flavor and nutrition of it. Instead, for corn on the cob, spread it with margarine or butter (or whatever you use), wrap it in either plastic wrap or (if you're old-fashioned) wax paper, and then nuke it in the microwave oven, for approximately five minutes (depending on the oven and the size of cob). This cooks the butter flavor into it, and yet keeps all the nutrition and natural flavor intact.

Similarly, if you remove the corn from the cob, nuke it with butter/whatever. Tastes a thousand times better than when cooked in water.

on 4/17/2007 Grow your corn using the Three Sisters method: A couple of weeks after planting the corn, plant two pole beans at the base of each cornstalk, and plant squash, gourds, or melons between the rows of corn. The beans provide the corn with nitrogen, and the squash/melons prove a great deterrant against deer and racoons, because their vines are very hard for furry creatures to walk between.

on 6/30/2006 Grow a batch of popcorn. The deer will go for that instead of the sweetcorn. They're happy and so are you.

on 3/15/2006 Do some hard work to raise a sweat and then put your sweaty shirt on a stick in the corn patch. The smell of a human is enough to keep them away. I've been doing this for years and it works for me.