So, this past week, the temps cooled to "BELOW" normal and although we have had a lot of sun, the heat has not been strong enough to do much. As you can see in the circled corn sprout (lower left hand of photo), it has not grown much since popping up. I did fertilize with blood meal last week, so there has been some growth, but not a lot. You can see the PVC distractions I put in/next to the corn patch to keep the critters from knocking over any more stalks. It is working. Yes, that's rain drops dripping from the PVC. It was raining as I took the photo. In the background, you can probably see the beans in the square garden inside the wire surround to keep most other critters out of it.
Back to the corn, it is easy to see which corn came up during the heat wave, and which ones are behind. I can only hope that we get enough warm weather to actually get a decent number of ears this year.
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| Corn Crop on Day 27 |
