Rocky Mountain Corn

[GilpinGuy]

Direct sow seems to work best.

I took this to heart and had extra space, so I sowed about 30 seeds as well. Hoping for the best.

[Delvehound]

Any word on these? How're they growing? Any ears yet? How do they taste?

[rbeau30]

Any word on these? How're they growing? Any ears yet? How do they taste?

I have 2 ears on most of my corn plants, some ears are like super-market sized. I think they seeded fine, but I am not really sure how to tell without opening the ears up. I planted these in a 2 x 6 raised bed for an experiment. They seemed to do pretty well, except they blow over easy. They don't seem to require a lot of water either. (I also covered the dirt with grass clippings on all of my gardens.)

I'll try to take pics this weekend.

These are a "Field Corn", so I have been told they can be eaten "sweet corn style" but will not be as sweet as one would expect something from the supermarket. They do well as meal/grits/flour or a hominy type of food.

[GilpinGuy]

Mine are only about 2.5 feet tall - no ears. The early season rain and cold really set everything back up here. The only things going really well are strawberries, sugar snap peas and herbs.

[ray1970]

The corn in Iowa is about six feet tall and looks like it has the ears on it.

[ChunkyMonkey]

Ours are about 3'


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[Delvehound]

Lookin' good buddy

[ChunkyMonkey]

The last few days the corn and potato plants are growing pretty fast. We will be gone for a month next month, this is going to be interesting!




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[hollohas]

I planted a short season corn this year. First ears were harvested on 7/26 and the last on 8/6. Heirloom corn with varied, small sized ears. Sweet and tasty but not nearly as sweet as the super sweets you find in the market.



Corn was all grown in pots. Shown on the right side of the above picture in late July.



Grew poles beans with them.



Grew in goofy sizes from 4 inches to 10 in.



One ear per plant. Plants were a very short season variety, grew only about 4ft tall.

[rbeau30]

This is what I got this year. From 12 stalks.



For perspective... Right is what I planted / Left is what I got. mostly 1 ear per stalk. Some had two.

I am very pleased because corn is wind pollinated. If I got this out of 12 stalks in a 2' x 6' raised bed. I think I would get a better yield off of a larger plot.

Perhaps next year I will delay half of the crop. and sew it later in the year.