Classic, a little pointer on the sweetcorn. Don't plant it too thick, give some space between the plants for bigger, fuller ears. My father in law grows sweet corn for Green Giant and they space them quite a bit. Do you have good soil ? The best supplement there is would be some good old cow yard dirt. Not pure manure, but dirt out of the cow yard. Not much odor, just the right amount of fertility. Yes, Peaches & Cream is good stuff.

Well since this is your first garden I will tell you something that I had to find out the hard way.

When you plat your corn, plant it in short multiple rows instead of one long row. If you plant it in one long row it will not "cross spit" (pollinate) properly and you will get little bitty ears that won't develop properly.

Good luck with your first garden. It is something that is very enjoyable and very addictive and even competetive to a point.

I've never tried Peaches and cream corn, I always plant Silver Queen, because it is the sweetest variety you can grow around my area. I might have to look for this Peaches and Cream variety and palnt some this year

Peaches and cream IS a good sweet corn. I will third fourth and fifth that.

Wish plain old field corn seed wert so durned high down here now. Even yeller dent is $12 a pound fer seed! Sheesh.

GoodOlBoy

GoodOlBoy, $12 a pound for regular field corn is robbery.

Check with a seed dealer (maybe a local feed store or Farmer's Co-op) and buy a bag like the farmers plant. A standard bag has 80,000 kernels and weighs about 50 lb. (it's the number of kernels that count).

You should be able to find a bag of good hybrid corn for about $100 which comes to $2 a pound. You can pay up to $200 a bag for the hybrids with all the genetic traits, but you probably don't need all that. Here in the cornbelt you could find 50 lb. bags for under $100 that grow pretty good corn.

Depending on what you're planting you can maybe get a good buy from a dealer on a leftover or broken bag, or holdover bag from last year. Unless you plan on making a living off the corn you plant the difference in yield would be minor from the top end stuff.

I'm a likin' this thread!

MT that IS from the seed dealer. I am a farmer have farm tax exempt, farm truck tags etc etc buy disel for the tractor at alot less than ya see on the pump that sort o thing. Truck farmin we call it. Ain't the size of them big boys which is why I buy it by the pound not the bag. From the CooP (Which just delcared bankrupcy and is going to shut down) it was $12.50 a lb for corn seed. Don't matter what type neither. Heck purplehull seed comes to $1.38 a lb and charelston grey watermelon (rattlesnake melons fer those of us from the country) is $.83 a pound. Even black diamond seed (which ain't real popular around here) is $1.12 a lb. Why corn is that high you can get me to do nuthin but guess.

earschplitinloudenboomer I am lovin this. I grew up on the small farm I am on now. It was close to 40 acres back then. Ain't got but 8 acres of it left after family (great grandmother) pulled a boogey woogey and sold part of it out from underneath us. I am still lookin fer a nice size truck farm around here that I can afford to buy. 70 to 80 acres should be anough to raise the three Cs and get a few squirrel and catfish in there to boot.

GoodOlBoy

GoolOlBoy,

You need to take a trip North sometime. I could find you a farm truck and you could fill it with seed and bring it back to Texas. Take US Hwy 59 North out of East Texas til you get to Minnesota and you'll end up a mile from my hunting shack where I grow my garden. My dad just sold his '63 Chev. C-60 with a 20' box & hoist for $900. 292 6 cyl. ran good. I could find you a fleet of them for $1,000 - all the farmers here want semi-tractors now.

Sorry to hear about the price of seed corn. No excuse for that. Next April you could bring up a truckload of 10-15 onions and I could have my buddy with a DeKalb seed dealership get you all the seed you want.

I absolutely love to eat fresh garden vegetables with wild game. Self reliance feels good too.

Don't tempt me MT. I ain't plantin corn this year BECAUSE of prices.

1015s and noonday onions both we got commin out our ears. Heck noonday aint that far from where I am. FM1015 is better than a days ride towards the mexican boarder. FM1015 is why the onion has the name 1015 for those at home. It is a Farm to Market Road that passes through the town of Presidio and into Mexico. Weslaco and Presidio are sister cities on the Tex-Mex boarder.


GoodOlBoy

Time..aint never heared tell of that word..lol
But, i'm werkin on it ..Lilred got other stuff in the pot she's gotta finish first for I can even think bout a garden, but I'll git 'r dun soon!