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May, 24,2017.
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So far, the weather this year has been wet and a bit on the cool side. Everything, including the weeds, is growing very fast. My tater plants are huge this year, Supposedly if you plant taters on the wrong moon sign you get lots of greenery but not so many taters. I'll find out in about a month I reckon when I dig 'em up, don't know what the moon sign was. Haven't sprayed taters yet, potato beetle damage is still minimal. Corn is the best ever so far, growing very fast, and I've got pole beans coming up in the corn for a double crop on this patch of corn. Aside from watering transplants, I've done no watering so far this year.

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Here's my okra, nothing yet to cut. And problems are developing again from blight/fungus because of all the rain and cool weather we've been having. I'll be spraying it soon with some copper based fungicide, hopefully non toxic for humans. Last year the heat and dry weather gave me a bumper crop of okra, gave about half of it away.

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Got the girls to pull the pea vines up for me to pick and shell. Much cooler sitting in the shade to pull the pods off. Finished shelling them a few minutes ago, ended up with 3+ quarts from the load on the cart.
 

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Update on the tomatoes and the Kentucky wonder pole beans from post #20, they have taken a notion to start climbing the trellis pretty good. ( notice my pvc irrigation system ) I think it works much better than a hose if I remember to turn the water off. I also put up another cow panel out at the garden for the Fortex pole beans and 2 more tomato plants. I have never grown Fortex beans before, so I will see how they do.
 

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So far, this has been a very good year for my corn. We've had plenty of rain, some of the plants are over 8 feet tall and I'll have bushels of the stuff to process this year. Some of it I'll give away, it's more than I need, I'm also growing pole beans in there with the corn. It's a good combination. I've used no fertilizer or pesticides this year in the corn. With the corn ear borer worms, I just chop off the tips that have them and carry on.

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So far, this has been a very good year for my corn. We've had plenty of rain, some of the plants are over 8 feet tall and I'll have bushels of the stuff to process this year. Some of it I'll give away, it's more than I need, I'm also growing pole beans in there with the corn. It's a good combination. I've used no fertilizer or pesticides this year in the corn. With the corn ear borer worms, I just chop off the tips that have them and carry on.

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Glad you got some rain, we are just now getting rain. I used no fertilizer this year either and the corn looks good except it has had no rain until tonight. I think it will really pick up now.

As for your corn, you can always ship it up here to me. lol!! As you know that I can process it for you!! ( I will take it by the dozen) No less than 12 dozen!! Ha ha!!
 
So far, this has been a very good year for my corn. We've had plenty of rain, some of the plants are over 8 feet tall and I'll have bushels of the stuff to process this year. Some of it I'll give away, it's more than I need, I'm also growing pole beans in there with the corn. It's a good combination. I've used no fertilizer or pesticides this year in the corn. With the corn ear borer worms, I just chop off the tips that have them and carry on.

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Love that corn!!
 
We use urine one gallon mixed with 8 gallons water for an excellent corn fertilizer. Will be experimenting with soil injection next season. I have had the equipment 4 years in the tree business. Soil injection as a side dressing technique should help develop deep root systems on corn. Stay tuned I will report results and grow comparison crops.
 
Pole snaps, Kentucky Wonders for the cattle panels, spaced about 10 to 12 inches, seems way far apart to me, compared to bush beans. ( chicken wire is for rabbit control ) Can the snaps be planted closer than the lamas?

I plant all my pole snaps in my corn, that way I never have to fool around with bean trellises. The beans have nitrogen fixing bacteria with them that helps fertilize the corn a bit. I thin them to not much less than around a foot apart. Limas minimum of two feet apart, and that may still be too much. I'll try one row of limas three feet apart.
 
We use urine one gallon mixed with 8 gallons water for an excellent corn fertilizer. Will be experimenting with soil injection next season. I have had the equipment 4 years in the tree business. Soil injection as a side dressing technique should help develop deep root systems on corn. Stay tuned I will report results and grow comparison crops.

Well, you can offer your guests some fried corn smut fertilized with urine! Just kidding....... I've been experimenting with chamber pots and using urine as a nitrogen garden source as well, seems to work and saves just a bit on the water and sewer bill. It's completely non toxic. But I rarely tell anybody about it, there is a common misconception that urine is loaded with dangerous bacteria - not so. Feces very well can be, and that's the source of the confusion. Here's my corn patch today, tassels are starting to turn brown. With the constant rain, some of my hybrid sweet corn plants are reaching 9 feet. I've never had that happen here before. I could get the non hybrid "roasting ear" varieties like Hickory King to do that, but not the Golden Queens or Merit hybrids.

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Well, you can offer your guests some fried corn smut fertilized with urine! Just kidding....... I've been experimenting with chamber pots and using urine as a nitrogen garden source as well, seems to work and saves just a bit on the water and sewer bill. It's completely non toxic. But I rarely tell anybody about it, there is a common misconception that urine is loaded with dangerous bacteria - not so. Feces very well can be, and that's the source of the confusion. Here's my corn patch today, tassels are starting to turn brown. With the constant rain, some of my hybrid sweet corn plants are reaching 9 feet. I've never had that happen here before. I could get the non hybrid "roasting ear" varieties like Hickory King to do that, but not the Golden Queens or Merit hybrids.

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I have a pack of rattlesnake pole beans that I might try planting in a row of corn if it is still not to late. This patch of corn is starting to tassel now. If it ever cools off up here I will try planting some in the first row and see how they do.
 

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