[AT] Growing Corn

[jtchall at nc.rr.com]

Last year the squirrels stripped my peach tree in 3 days. The fruit was only 
slightly bigger than golf balls. This year it was very heavily laden with 
peaches--been considering having to support a couple limbs. Well the little 
fur balls are at it again. Shot a couple, but who has time to sit and guard 
a fruit tree, retired guys? Something got my apples as well. I was thinking 
it was a cold snap but my cousins (2 houses over) are loaded with fruit. One 
of these days I am going to be in a real bad mood and grab the 4020 and a 
log chain and remove all my fruit trees. After several years we have not 
harvested the first piece of fruit. Too much work planting, pruning, 
covering blooms in case of frost danger, mulching, watering, and the pure 
aggravation of mowing around them.

We were talking about a month ago in regards to how much fruit and 
vegetables were raised here. Now the wildlife pressure has it so we can't 
grow anything.  There must have been 15 apples trees, 10 cherry trees, 3 
pears, 2 scuppernong vines, 2 runs of concord grapes, 2 damson trees (I have 
no idea how to spell it but they make good preserves), and about 2.5 acres 
of garden. We planted so much garden we had plates for the 4-row corn 
planter so we could plant snap-beans and butterbeans, as well as a set for 
Silver Queen corn. Add in hogs and cows and we must have had a small grocery 
bill!

John


-----Original Message----- 
From: charlie hill
Sent: Friday, July 11, 2014 8:22 AM
To: Antique tractor email discussion group
Subject: Re: [AT] Growing Corn

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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