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Those things you see in my dim little picture are actually sunflowers. The corn has thin leaves and is hard to see here.

Those sunflowers may be hoggin' all the fish emulsion-My corn is also fairly tall now,too.

Doug: I have to say I was astonished to see how fast them sumflowers started a-growin'. A foot in one week?!

Oh,cool, you are growing corn too? Might you have a picture? Corn picture! I'd love to see it.

The Cobblestone corn is in a long narrow band, and mine is in a Y-shaped garden; what does yours look like?

Oh, and I also planted corn, with a stick, the old traditional way, around my pond and on the adjacent West Nile Hill.

I have a fairly large block of it in the back yard-I like the look of a big square block of sweet corn,and I think it gets better pollination like this when it tassels. I planted it a bit too early this year,right before we had that solid week of heavy rain,and a lot of it must have rotted in the ground-so I replanted sections around Mem. Day. The stuff that came up first is at least as tall as the Cobblestone Farm pic. I use an Earthway seeder to plant, as I usually have a large area to plant. Woodchucks and squirrels, and possibly deer have taken a heavy toll this year-our Zukes can't get growing because something keeps nibbling the tops off.

Yes sir, I think you're right about the pollination. They say 4 rows 15 feet long is the minimum for proper pollination. My garden, naturally, ignores this completely in its bizarre tri-legged shape, so we'll see.

I just came in from hoeing and hilling my corn. Wow! it's really hot out,and I'm cooling down in front of the computer. Speaking of hoes,that corn at cobblestone looks to be needin' some hoein',too.

I like this cornpeople thing. Cornpeople are cool.

Yeah, that corn at Cobblestone looks to be needin' some hoein', you're right! Not to mention hillin'.

Boy, s o m e b o d y better git crackin' over there.

I'm headed home from work to hoe mine Right Now! Yes, sir!

You can always hand pollinate your corn, instead of letting the wind do it.

This tropical weather seems like it's the kind that corn likes. Not me so much.

One must hoe and the correct time to hoe. Perhaps there are baby corn plants growing in between where none came up in the first round. Patience.

Even more than the cobblestone corn is "needin' some hoein'", i'd say that, at 518kb, that photo of the corn is "needin' some optimizin'".

Baby corn plants?

Yah.

Those must be the strain of sweetcorn known as..."crabgrass."

Brett: I'm in a hurry. If I ain't hoein', I'm fish emulsionin'. If I ain't doin' that, I'm rakin' or mebbe feeding my fishies in my pond. Not a spare minute to "optimize" photos, nosir. That 518 kb is gonna hafta do.

Sandy: Yes, the corn does seem to like the hot, sticky weather.

Corn doesn't like to be babied too much.

There's a time to hoe, and a time to deadhead other stuff.

http://72.14.203.104/search?q=cache:hJ7NQVTsRrQJ:maize.agron.iastate.edu/supersweet.html+X+illini+Supersweet&hl=en&gl=us&ct=clnk&cd=1

That is interesting info @ the supersweet on the Maize Page, Anon.

Mine is tricolor Inca and regular sweet