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Spring of 2013 I put 300 pounds of cottonseed meal on my vegetable bed. This year I found out that was about 10 times what I should have used and that cottonseed meal is high in nitrogen. I didn't put any fertilizer down this spring.
I was rushed this spring after putting in tomatoes, bell peppers, okra, and bush beans. I planted about 2/3 of my garden with corn to finish my planting with no expectations of it being worth eating.
I've grown corn 3 or 4 times before and it never did well. Some was edible but the ears were small and never filled out with kernels.
Tonight I picked 10 of the most gorgeous ears of corn I could have imagined. We've bought corn from roadside stands before and those folks know how to grow corn. Tonight my corn was right up there with the quality, size, kernels, etc. of theirs. If you don't believe me you can ask my wife and son. They loved it.
This was the corn patch that was so overgrown with weeds a few weeks ago that I almost pulled up the corn with all the weeds just to clear out the mess.
My dinner tonight was corn on the cob and fresh tomatoes both from my vegetable bed. All the work was worth it.
Now I'm going to have to eat corn about every night and give corn away to my kids and their families. We may have enough to put some in the freezer for winter.
I'm very pleased with it and it really turned out well due to an error on my part.
I was rushed this spring after putting in tomatoes, bell peppers, okra, and bush beans. I planted about 2/3 of my garden with corn to finish my planting with no expectations of it being worth eating.
I've grown corn 3 or 4 times before and it never did well. Some was edible but the ears were small and never filled out with kernels.
Tonight I picked 10 of the most gorgeous ears of corn I could have imagined. We've bought corn from roadside stands before and those folks know how to grow corn. Tonight my corn was right up there with the quality, size, kernels, etc. of theirs. If you don't believe me you can ask my wife and son. They loved it.
This was the corn patch that was so overgrown with weeds a few weeks ago that I almost pulled up the corn with all the weeds just to clear out the mess.
My dinner tonight was corn on the cob and fresh tomatoes both from my vegetable bed. All the work was worth it.
Now I'm going to have to eat corn about every night and give corn away to my kids and their families. We may have enough to put some in the freezer for winter.
I'm very pleased with it and it really turned out well due to an error on my part.
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