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Growing corn using the hill method

Rick — Mon, 10 Jun 2019 12:00:11 +0000

Growing corn using the hill method is a great solution for those of you that would like to grow some corn in your small garden. Growing corn using the hill method Sweet corn has to be in most people’s top five garden crops. I know we love it around our place! But growing corn (either …

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How To Avoid Corn Cross Pollination

Rick — Sat, 05 Nov 2016 10:00:45 +0000

I often get questions about planting corn and corn cross-pollination. I’d always been taught that you had to be careful with corn, but for years I didn’t really know the “why”. First, let’s talk about what corn cross-pollination is and why it is such a worry. Cross-pollination is the natural process where pollen from one …

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Preserving Corn

Rick — Fri, 16 Sep 2011 13:52:44 +0000

We love to eat corn on the cob around here but we really don’t have the space to grow much ourselves. We have tried several experiments over the years none very successful. This year we tried two small 4×8 patches and we also tried planting in hills in a flower bed. We did ok but …

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