Sweet Corn

Finally got the sweet corn in. We are shooting for 3 separate plantings 2 weeks apart to allow us to have a longer period of sweet corn maturing. We had purchased 5 bags of sweet corn that were 2lbs or 4 lbs. This made for some serious math to figure out how much field to disk up and how much corn to use for the first planting. You would have thought we were trying to calculate how to orbit the moon. The math went something like this: our corn planter drops about 15 kernels of corn every 10 feet. We have a four row planter and need to plant 8 rows to allow for pollination. Then there was the calculation to determine how many kernels are in a 2 or 4 lb bag. Luckly Sharon loves to do that kind of math. Once we had the math done and determined how many feet needed to be worked we had to measure a standard pace length to allow us to measure the ground to be disked. In the end it looks like the calculations were correct because we had very little corn left in the hoppers when we had made our 2 passes. We got the corn in just before it started to rain! Again!