[AT] Growing Corn

[Thomas Mehrkam]

Look at the bright side.


Pear and tomato fatten Squirrels are abundant. ;-}
Time to bring out the .22 rifle.




On Friday, July 11, 2014 7:32 AM, charlie hill <charliehill at embarqmail.com> wrote:
 


John we've got corn in places that is tasseled and the ear silks are turning
that isn't 4' high.  It's not entire fields, just the stressed areas of 
fields
but all of it is suffering for water which amazes me because it seems like
it has rained every other day this spring and summer.  I guess just not 
enough.

My tomato vines are full of fruit that is way smaller than it should be. 
The vines
are nice and green and there are new blossoms but it's all sitting there 
waiting
for rain and warm nights to fill out and ripen.  Then there are the 
squirrels.  My
pear tree was overloaded with fruit to the point that it would had broken 
branches
if the squirrels hadn't eaten EVERY SINGLE pear.  Now they have started on 
my
tomatoes.   When I say every single pear I mean hundreds of pears.  Maybe 
I'll get
a couple of good tomatoes out of 16 vines.

We did get a nice rain last night.

Charlie


-----Original Message----- 
From: jtchall at nc.rr.com
Sent: Thursday, July 10, 2014 9:39 PM
To: Antique tractor email discussion group
Subject: Re: [AT] Growing Corn

Wish we had some of that rain! Got 1/4" today, first in about 4 weeks.
Theres quite a bit of corn that has tassled at around 6-8 ft tall--including
mine. I screwed up planting and got my population too thin. Right now I am
quite happy about it. The bottom leaves are burning off bad. Last year on
the other hand we had so much rain the corn was as high as the combine cab
in places and we were having trouble getting enough nitrogen on it to
counter the leaching.

John Hall


-----Original Message----- 
From: John Slavin
Sent: Monday, July 07, 2014 10:58 AM
To: at at lists.antique-tractor.com
Subject: [AT] Growing Corn

Hello all:

Hope everyone had a happy and safe 4th.

Talking about the rain, the corn is really putting the water and the humid
temps to good use!  I take pictures of our crops just to document for my far
flung children how the crops are doing. I haven't lived on the farm since
high school, and instead live about 20 miles away, but was at my sister's
house for the 4th so took the opportunity to walk out into the corn field.
I couldn't believe it, the corn was near 7 foot tall.  I went back to my
photo gallery and the last picture I took was on June 21 and the corn was a
little less than knee high, which I'm approximating at 24 inches.
72"-24"=48" grown divided by 13 days =3.69 inches of growth per day.  I
guess that's really not that unusual, but I was really surprised. My dad
always used to say you can hear corn growing.  You can take a look at the
difference here:

https://www.icloud.com/photostream/#A25oqs3qobklH

The young lady is my daughter Sydney.

John Slavin
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