Glad to see you finally went double row and joined the likes of real corn and grain farmers. Never had a problem on 36 inch rows with pollination with over 40 years of large scale farming experience.
You are so right Travis, burying the drip tape directly under a single corn row is really hard to pull it up after you harvest your corn, and you do tend to rip it apart trying to get it out.Been there ,done that! Double row appears to be a winner.
Boy howdy. You knocked sweet corn out of the park. I've seen quite a bit of double row corn grown but only with synthetic nutrients and center pivot irrigation. Much tougher to get enough yield with organics but I believe you've cracked the code. A freezer full of that stuff is like money in the bank. Nice job.
Ahh that brings back memories of a summer before my 2nd grade school year. My two front teeth were out and I couldn’t eat corn of the cob that year. Corn is one of my favorites and I loved my moms cream corn. But that year was sad cause I liked eating it on the cob. Still do!
I like plump kernels but I want the tender crispy ears. Sometimes the fuller ears are getting gummy, so I sometimes go for smaller ears. I don’t have the space for corn so I’m stuck with farmers markets.
We plant Silver King here in Pa. and pretty much do the same thing, Kubota, fan, blanch and cut off with the Pampered Chef cutter. Also use an air hose with a blow gun to remove the silk, saves the arms from brushing 100's of ears.
Good looking crop of corn. Your right about one thing, plant it early to dodge that late June heat and humidity, least ways in our part of Texas. Just finished processing our 300' of sweet corn yesterday.
Ive been planting double rows years because of lack of space. It works really good with beans and field peas also. As long as you keep it watered until it shades out the row, and with a little rain there is no need for water tape. Ive never had problems with pollination with this method, full ears every year.
I did double rows of corn this year as well, and also did 6 inch emitters. I am in NC, so I am a few weeks behind you but it is looking great and cant wait!!!
Great Job Travis! We grow up in the N GA mountains and are at least 4 to 6 weeks behind you. I also like to look at the husks leaves sticking straight out at 90 degrees when the ears are ready. Of course, nothing beats grabbing the ear and feeling it. We like Peaches and Cream or Ambrosia for our first planting, and the we plant Mirai bicolor when we can find seed. Thanks for your great gardening advice.
My "Incredible" corn is beginning to tassel. I watered for the first time today. I've had more problems with too much water this year. I have three 25 ft. double rows planted. It's good enough to see how the inner rows of the plot grows. The stalks in the double row grow away from each other and into the row middles. It's not the tangled mess I envisioned.
Awesome job!!! Happy to know you had success with double row planting. Single row corn planting is NOT the way to grow corn... period. In 2020 we moved from St Louis, MO. to Central Florida and have grown what is now our 4th season. I plant my corn (peaches & cream) 6 plants wide making a row 30 inches wide and 75 feet long. Just one row but will start growing two rows next year to supply enough for family of 4. Perfect pollination, no watering issues and almost no worms - and I use NOTHING for pest control - and it saves a lot of space and money by needing less compost. And I used only a garden hose for watering in the hot Florida sun! How? I invested some money in peat moss to hold moisture. People in my area use overhead sprinklers but I did not want to wear out my well pump, and increase the cost of food production, so lots of peat is the only solution that worked. I will be sharing what I have learned from my Wide Row Corn method (and a lot more!) on my channel.
Man this video made my mouth water!! Nothing I like better than some good, white sweet corn. I’m not a fan of the cream portion but your harvest looked fantastic. My grandmother used to have a chest freezer and filled half with sweet corn and the other half butter beans. Outside of breakfast I never had a meal at her house without corn and butter beans. My favorite childhood memories.
I loved my nanny an papa's butter bean an corn. They never called it succotash. But man-0-man. The juice that it cooked in was just as good as the veg was. I miss my grand parents an they old recipes of my youth. Great video Trav! You did good with your corn bro
I wish I had the space for corn. We'd rather have the extra peas. Seems a better use of space for now. You do make it look easier than I thought it would be. Time will tell. Congrats to you. Have 3 ears for me.😊
I vacuum seal a lot of stuff i buy meat cheese chicken and rice in bulk and a sealer only last about a year so last November I bought a commercial chamber vacuum sealer best purchase lately. Another good show i have learned a lot from you especially on how to grow onions, i didn't know that onions and cabbage needed so much fertilizer and nitrogen
Man that looks so good. Brings back memories of all our family getting together. It would take all day and we would be tired out. Then we would split up the quart bags between each family. If you didn't HELP that day you didn't get any only fair. I'm subscribing. Great job!!
Its funny, this is the first year I tried a double row. We are in Virginia, so not quite ready like yours are, but I'm using drip as well, but I didnt bury it, I just hilled it when I hilled the corn. We will see how that works overall, so far so good! (except, if I buried it, it would be easier to weed initially)
I went to traditional check row planting on a 30" grid. Population is a little lower, but it's really easy to hoe it. Corn produces much better when you keep it weed free.
Great video, thanks for sharing. I used to live in Warner Robins Georgia and plenty of corn rows there for young kids to run through with our BB guns, great memories. Ted in Sebastian, Fl.
You definitely hit a corn home run, happy for you! We just got our sweet corn planted. In a couple of weeks we will be planting some Blue Corn for grinding. Now you have us to thinking and would this process or double row planting work for Blue Corn?
Where did you get the seed for this variety? I tried fall corn last summer for the first time and it was amazing!!! Planted July 27th in the Missouri Ozarks zone 6b and was blown away with our harvest! ❤ y’all, Kristy 😃🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
Have you had any issues with hybrid corn forming the pollen way before the silks are all out? I’ve had that problem in my small plots last year and had to cross pollinate with similar hybrid pollen later on.
My dad is blasting this video in the kitchen because he can’t hear very well and he doesn’t wanna get headphones/earbuds. It’s annoying the hell out of me. Great video 😨😻😒
I have done it by blanching it and then vacuum sealing in freezer bags. It's okay, but takes up a bunch of freezer space and the texture isn't that great after freezing.
I use "steel" (I cultivate with a tractor or tiller depending on wetness) to kill weeds so the double row arrangement would cause problems with that. Research in the Mid-West shows that the width of rows has no measurable effect on yield of field corn for row widths from 24-inches to 48-inches and I believe the number of plants per acre remained constant, row spacing notwithstanding. That should translate to sweet corn yields as well. Some say that the narrow rows are easier to keep clean of weeds and grass because of shading. I could see how double rows would work better for spreading crops such as peanuts, but corn I do not see the advantage, but it certainly would not hurt if it fitted your fancy.
Factory’s use a spinner to cut off curnals .I think it might be worth building one given the volume of work you will do over time. It’s a little like an apple pealer.
Spinosad. I usually start spraying every week or two when silks appear. But if I notice worm damage on the leaves before that happens, I'll treat them earlier.
Go with an open pollinated variety and absolutely save your seed but like Travis said, you have to be right on time with your harvest and processing of what you're going to eat. Otherwise it will be starchy.
We're surrounded by a bunch of wide open fields, so no deer really close to us. We do get an occasional rabbit, but the cats and dogs keep a strong guard.
Travis I can’t make a lot of money selling sweet corn on a $/1000 sqft basis. So I need to use cheapo fertilizer. If I put down all P and K using 10-10-10 at preplant, will the corn grow fine if I used ammoniacal nitrogen for side dressing or urea nitrogen? Thank you.
Ok....wow, interesting, had no idea that you cut the corn off the cobb.... I've been freezing mine on the Cobb. I'm guessing your method takes less room in the freezer...
I hope ots alright to ask a question, ive only been trying to grow corn for two years now, os it ok to use 10-10-10 when i hill my corn, and how often should you fertilize
To help with that pollen getting to the ears and since I have overhead irrigation, when I see the pollen coming out heavily, I walk down the rows of corn with my arms extended over them and help the pollen get down to the ears. Seems to help a lot.
@@LazyDogFarm those are the kindda things that could make or break a harvest. Sorry sorry. But might want that in video or pinned note, etc. Many blessings everyone.
Hey Travis - this is my first time growing corn. One of my teenage cobs bent over and exposed itself. The covered part developed and is perfect - the exposed part not so much. Is this typical, or a behavior problem that needs correcting?
Fairly new to growing corn this year I went with the silver queen and I’m having some tassels and silts growing together and actually making a little bit of corn. Have you ever seen this and what is going on?
Have you tried canning the corn? If so, how does it compare for flavor and texture vs freezing it? I canned last year's extra corn and that kept us going until about March. Freezing would be easier and faster.
Does anyone know how to hill up double rows or corn with drip tape in the middle (spcifically with a wheel hoe). Do you just use one plow attachment throw extra dirt from each side of the row and hopefully it fills in the middle?
@@LazyDogFarm How do you utilize a wheel hoe to wee between double rows? Do you have to use a single wheel exclusively? Seems like a double wheel will just run over the plants...right? (this will be my first year with double rows AND I want to graduate to a wheel hoe!)
Wow. Fantastic Travis! In the microwave: Was that 10 minutes, then stir, and another 10 minutes? Or was it 5 minutes, stir, and then another 5 minutes? Thx. Chuck in Jensen Beach.
I bit the bullet and bought a chamber vacuum sealer. The equipment price is pretty steep but "in the long run" in will pay for itself with bags only costing between a nickel to a quarter a piece versus roughly the dollar a piece for the food saver bags. Plus a chamber sealer really ramps up your backyard grilling game being able to vacuum marinate your meats soaked in liquid.
We are, but I don't really use it for corn earworms. Spinosad is cheaper and does a great job on worms. We pull out the Azera for broad spectrum applications for more than just worms.
I want to grow some corn next year but O have a few questions. My farm is surrounded by cornfields. Will their corn mess with the pollination of the sweet corn? If I did an area 30 x 35, like in the video, would I be able to rotate one year corn, one year pumpkins?
Yes their corn could possibly pollinate your corn. Corn pollen can travel a long way via the wind. You'd want to try and plant a couple weeks prior to them or wait and plant a few weeks after they do. And yes, you could rotate corn and pumpkins like that.
Cream corn cooks up so quickly that you really wouldn’t need to pressure can it. I put my corn with the “milk” from the cob into a wide pan on low heat and add salt, pepper, and butter. If you don’t have enough liquid, you can add a little water. Just heat and stir until it is the desired consistency. If you’ve added too much water, you can dissolve some corn starch in water and stir that in to thicken it up. Cream sweet corn and home-grown slicer tomatoes are the best thing ever.
