how's it going everyone so corn has definitely got to be one of my favorite
summer crops to grow purely because you there's a massive difference in the
taste compared to your own homegrown corn and corn bought from the
supermarket so I'm gonna be growing some down behind just behind me in a plot
that I dug up a couple of weeks ago so I'm just going to be planting a hybrid
super sweet or sweet corn variety and I'll be also explaining how I prepared
the soil and also the best planting method for planting your corn so quit
quit the jabbering and we'll just get straight into planting so here's a quick
look at how the soil is so this is the plot that I have got it is right next to
some Basil's that I've planted I've just pulled this mulch aside and it's
prepared it was prepared at the exact same time as the watermelons which are
just up there as well so it was prepared the same way so what I did is brought in
about a bit over wheelbarrow full of homemade compost and spread it out over
this area then I did also add some blood and bone and just slightly dug that in
and then put on a good thick layer of this piece or mulch and that's just been
sitting here and worms and other microorganisms have been working it over
the past couple of weeks so it looks really nice it stayed nice and moist and
it looks absolutely beautiful and fertile for planting the corn in so now
I'll get into how the best way and the best method to plant in your corners and
I've grown these from seed myself and they're really nice-looking they're
probably about 5 centimeters are about 2 inches tall so it's great time to start
planting them so I'm just going to be playing them directly into this bed here
now the bed is quite narrow and it's not that big and I've got about I think 15
plants or so but that is how I like to plant corn I like to plant corn
quite a lot closer than recommended and also the best like you really want to
plant your corn in more of a block formation rather than say one long
straight row you want to play them in blocks and this is because
corn is wind pollinated so it requires the wind to spread the pulling around so
it can fertilize and the corn kernels which is actually the seed they can
actually form properly so get straight into planting so basically I'm just
gonna say take this first one pop it in the ground like that take this other one
you plant it quite closely so I plant mine about 15 centimeters
apart 15 20 centimeters apart I'm gonna try and squeeze three in sort of right
okay so I've got three in sort of on each width and I'm gonna be doing that
but slightly trying to offset each one so that way no matter which direction
the wind blows the poem will be spread to at least a couple of plants so just
keep that in mind for planting corn you want to plant them in blocks or squares
not just like large rows so try and you have as big of a bulk as you can when
you're planting corn so many worms in here all that compost that we added a
couple of weeks ago so many compost worms which is awesome to see all right
now that I finished planting these in a good block pattern now I'm just gonna re
spread this mulch back over them only fairly lightly though and then give them
a really good water okay so now I'm just gonna water these in and we are
expecting a lot of rain this afternoon and also the next couple of days but I'm
still just gonna give them a bit of a quick water and just so they don't
stress because it is still quite warm and we've just come we're just coming
out of a bit of the heat Stoke so just gonna give these guys a quick drink just
so I don't stress out
and now there are planted okay so the corn is now all done and planted and as
I said we are expecting a lot of rain which would be awesome for the corn
because they are a type of grass and they do grow very quickly so a bit of
extra water is actually probably better for them so in terms of like pests and
other sort of you know nasties that will come and pests and diseases that will
come corn is fairly good I know definitely on in the early stages
sometimes legs and snails can be a bit of a problem so I will make sure I keep
an eye on that for the over the next couple of days I'll be coming out
regularly just to check on them other than that they don't really get too many
diseases sometimes powdery mildew sometimes towards the end they might get
some aphids especially in the actual cobs of the corn which can be a bit of a
pain if you just keep an eye on out eye out for him and get on top of it early
there will be no real damage done so that is pretty much the videos so I
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