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I planted over 3 million corn seed today. Several more million to go. Got some free sweet corn seed for the garden as a thank you from pioneer

Damn cuz. You got enough canning jars and lids for that? :)

There are several walk behind manual seed planters that can be had for $100-$200. Just google “manual seed planter”. It seems that the wheels are of sufficient size to facilitate moving across freshly tilled soil. I’d opt for the one having the largest wheels if all else is equal. Of course I can’t attest to the quality of manufacturing or actual functionality since I’ve never owned one.

On the other hand if you have a tractor then there are many that will mount on a 3-point hitch. But those start around $1,600 or so.

Craigslist is useful if you don’t mind trying a used one

You can your sweet corn Robert? I grew up blanching it and freezing it after cutting it off the cob

I grow very little sweet corn everything I’m planting will eventually become chicken feed. I sell my grain to the chicken companies mountaire mostly

That’s interesting. When I was driving OTR I hauled many loads of Mountaire chicken out of the Siler City, NC plant to Restaurant Depots all across the southwest states and up and down the Pacific coast states.

Where are you located Jake?

Abrignac I’m in Delaware Harrington. I used to raise chickens for Perdue for years

We froze a lot of it, but we did can 12 pints last summer.

It was good, and canning preserves the corn even if there is no electricity.

Processing all of it will be the hard part.

Hey I dint want to mess up your politics thread too much but I did laugh at your "corn futures" post.

I know I should have staggered the corn. 50% initial plant, and then plant the other 50% around mid June. That way the processing wouldn't be all at the same time, it's what I do with my beans.

This is the first year of the 70x25 though, and I just wanted to see the corn come up all at once...prolly gonna regret that.

Ahhh it wouldn’t have bothered me. The only scared thread on the site is the 500 and some noob even managed to screw that up.

8track, what kind of grass?

How much sun does the area get?

I do not have annuals because the ground-cover and other plants contrast each other colorfully and really well.

The ground cover is purple with pink flowers that open daily and never fall off . Right now, the society garlic (pink) the ground cover (purple, African Iris (white and yellow), and my Lilly of the Nile (light blue), are blooming and all but the Lilly of the Nile bloom all summer.

Mulched like 4"+ last year so few to no weeds and it all looks good for another year. Lawn looks great as do the trees and palms. Nothing could kill the hollies, sago palm, cardboard palm, sago palms, Ligustrum or pittosporum....

Most importantly, I started collecting people's spent orchids after they were done blooming over the last year. I have been easily taking care of them watering like 4-6/year and that is it. Key is that they get indirect afternoon sunlight. I have about 10 white and yellows blooms on two plants and a fuchsia and yellow bloom just starting to open up!

Good work bro. Keep stroking (as long as you have oil)

Still have to put in cabbage, broccoli, cauliflower, sugar snap peas, carrots and potatoes.

I'm gonna make a list of everything we've planted in "Garden A" when we are completely finished with it.

Some of the corn is starting to pop up. Most of in fact, other than those last 7 rows that we planted a few days after our initial planting.

Got some ambrosia sweet corn from my seed dealer as a thank you for buying bulk from the guy. I’m gonna put some in my planter and run a few rows at my shop to eat and share

The grass was better in the back yard. The grass has been coming back poorer year over year.
Drip Line? Meaning how wide is the root base, relating to the widest span of the canopy above?
Probably 30 yards across? Have five oaks on the property. Grass grows well enough in the front, but doesn't in the back.
I do the spring weed and seed thing (it will go down after the next rain).

Try rye grass in the back, it is rough, but if anything will grow there that is it in my opinion. When I lived in Wisconsin our property had several such areas. An older gent who worked at True Value told me to try rye. I did and it grew just fine.

Rye.

Is there an advantage or disadvantage of simply mixing in the rye grass seed with the weed and feed?