[AT] Growing Corn

Sat Jul 12 06:48:09 PDT 2014

Well to add insult to injury I started out late yesterday afternoon and
as I walked to my truck a beautiful green tomato, half eaten,
literally fell from the sky and nearly hit both me and my truck.
I assume a squirrel had it either on the roof of the house or in a tree
and dropped it, seemingly on purpose.  When I came back home
I inspected my tomato plants again and realized that over half of
my grown and starting to ripen tomatoes are gone including one
complete clump of about 10 Roma tomatoes that I was really proud
of and hoping to show off at my mom's upcoming 96th birthday party.

Ok it's war now.  I covered the ground in a band along both sides
and across the ends of my tomato rows with a thick dusting of garden
sulfur.  I mixed Texas Pete hot sauce in vinegar and water with a drop of
dish washing detergent and sprayed all of the foliage and the ground around
the plants.  I also dusted the tomatoes with garden dust.  I know that
the garden dust won't stop the squirrels but if the sulfur and and hot sauce
don't slow them down at least they won't have fleas when I dress them out.

Charlie

-----Original Message----- 
From: Dan Glass
Sent: Saturday, July 12, 2014 7:39 AM
To: Antique tractor email discussion group
Subject: Re: [AT] Growing Corn

I finally pulled up all my peach trees and planted blueberries.
Blueberries need no spraying, very little fertilizer, and for the last
twenty years have had bountiful crops.  Birds do eat a lot but there are
still plenty.
On 7/12/2014 7:25 AM, jtchall at nc.rr.com wrote:
> 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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