Don't Look Canesisters! Or You Won't Talk to Me No More!

[Kassaundra]

Those are last years bell pepper PLANTS. I covered them all winter and put a heater on them. They really didn't make new peppers in the winter, but the peppers that were on there went ahead and ripened S-L-O-W-L-Y. Then they took off as soon as the weather got semi-warm. I just wonder how many years a bell pepper plant could stay alive and produce?

Majorcatfish........my corn is four feet tall.

So I was half right



I think I remember reading somewhere that places that have native peppers the plant can live for decades.

 

[canesisters]

well look the corn is coming up..sorry canesisters
[url]http://i1111.photobucket.com/albums/h464/majorcatfish/DSC_0001_zps2095c659.jpg[/url]
along with a few weeds.

:bun MY corn is about a foot tall - HA!
(course.... I started it indoors)

 

[the1honeycomb]

Hello!! Jealous!!! of course you were able to start planting earlier due to the Texas weather!! SOO Jealous!! Glad your stuff is so far along!
You need to post photos!!

 

[bj taylor]

gosh bay, you've got it goin on. how much corn did you plant?

I've got baby tomatoes. yippie

 

[baymule]

Corn-about 50-60 plants, just don't have much room here. I planted Violet's Multicolored Butterbeans in the corn too, also on a hay twine trellis next to the corn. This will be my cornmeal corn if all goes right. I have one teeny tiny itty bitty green tomato so far, and tons of blooms! Yay!!

 

[canesisters]

It's 82 today!!!
I'm going to go home and measure my plants! Surely SOMETHING had grown ...... :coolsun

 

[bj taylor]

for a healthy corn harvest, how many ears per stock is considered good? do you plant in rows or do you plant in squares?

 

[majorcatfish]

it was 82 here today...
tomorrow 84 and 100+ on the roof.
have a rubber epdm roof <rubber> at work and with all the rain found new leaks today,
so going to spend the majority of the day repairing them..yea haw

 

[baymule]

for a healthy corn harvest, how many ears per stock is considered good? do you plant in rows or do you plant in squares?

Corn has a pre-set number of ears. Most varieties only have 1 ear per stalk. 2 per stalk is very good. I planted Daymon Morgans Kentucky Butcher in a 4'x8' block. It gets 12' to 18' tall and the ears are 14" long. I am excited to grow this corn.
http://www.southernexposure.com/daymon-morgans-kentucky-butcher-corn-dent-57-g-p-780.html

The other corn I planted is Blue Jade. It only gets 3' tall and bears 3-6 ears per stalk. I would imagine the ears will be small.
http://www.seedsavers.org/onlinestore/corn/Corn-Blue-Jade-OG.html

I haven't grown corn in years, so decided to depart from the over-the-counter sweet corn hybrid. I wanted to grow something very different. There are so many kinds of corn that it was hard to decide which ones to choose.

 

[baymule]

it was 82 here today...
tomorrow 84 and 100+ on the roof.
have a rubber epdm roof <rubber> at work and with all the rain found new leaks today,
so going to spend the majority of the day repairing them..yea haw

Sounds like you will have a blasting fun day.........NOT!! I worked as a roofer one summer when I was 21 and couldn't find a job. I thought I had been hot in my life. Nothing could have prepared me for feeling like a blob of cookie dough baking on a roof. The good part is, over the years, I have been able to re-roof my house several times. The last time was after hurricane Ike and a massive oak landed on the house. A guy from work and I tore off and put back on 35 squares. Replaced decking, wind turbines and made it all new again. Took 3 weekends. (and DH told me I couldn't do it-said I was too old! I sure showed him!