[AT] Check planting

[Al Jones]

If you don't plant at least 27,000 in eastern NC, you're not doing much.
32,000 is not unusual.

I have a bag full of "heirloom" corn.  It was some my great-grandfather,
my dad's mother's father, (!!??) used to plant.  It grows very tall, has
a huge ear with big kernels.  But you have to space it out....I usually
plant it about 18" apart, 2-3 kernels to the hill.

I didn't plant any this year, but I did last year and it made a good
crop--but probably not in today's terms.  It makes good cornbread
though....

Al

-----Original Message-----


From: at-bounces at lists.antique-tractor.com
[mailto:at-bounces at lists.antique-tractor.com] On Behalf Of Francis
Robinson
Sent: Monday, December 24, 2007 8:26 AM
To: Antique tractor email discussion group
Subject: Re: [AT] Check planting

    Yes Ernst, you are exactly right. Except corn wouldn't yield much
spaced 
20' apart...   ;-)
    Check planting died very quickly when 2-4-D came along for broadleaf

weed control.
    I'm too lazy to do the math but I have wondered how many seeds you
would 
need per hill to get a seed count up to today's seeds per acre rates
which 
are getting up to around 30,000.   :-)

--
"farmer"

Do not follow where the path may lead.  Go, instead, where there is no
path
and leave a trail.  ~Ralph Waldo Emerson


Francis Robinson
Central Indiana, USA
robinson at svs.net 

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