The leaves are growing apace in the once-again-present sunshine and thank-goodness-you're-back warmth.
Monday, January 16, 2012
Corn up-date
I drenched the soil around the corn-clump with liquid plant feed made from comfrey leaves (12 month old brew).
The leaves are growing apace in the once-again-present sunshine and thank-goodness-you're-back warmth.
The leaves are growing apace in the once-again-present sunshine and thank-goodness-you're-back warmth.
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I've got some leaning tower of pisa corn plants after the recent wind. Not complaining too much though cos it brought that useful rain.
There's a variety I'd not heard of!
Should go well with pasta, unless gravity wins.
I was discussing the experiment with a visitor today and he said this must have happened before naturally, when conditions such as you describe, Viv, occurred and left whole cobs lying on the ground and its kernels sprouting in situ. I guessing though, that no one has recorded it photographically. Til now. I'm tempted to construct a cloche around it, to hurry its progress, as we are well through the season now, but I'll try to resist forcing the issue. That usually results in failure (like 'helping' chicks out of the shell). I'll let them go naturale
An interesting project. I wonder how corn seed propagated itself before humans intervened, if left on the plant do individual seed/kernels come off or does the whole cob fall to the ground? Not sure if I'll be leaving any of my plants to find out though, (think they are F1 Chieftain from Kings)
I think the modern maize/sweet corns are very far from the originals, which probably looked and behaved like wild grasses. We've pumped them up :-)
Re comfrey thanks for the advice re changing the base plant of rhubarb to comfrey under the apple tree. We had a old large apple tree that had not provided any fruit for yonks, I had rhubarb growing under it ...I changed this to comfrey as suggested and I was amazed at how it flowered this year with young apples on many of them as result. I suspect next year it will be even better, sadly I wont be living here to enjoy seeing the results.
Comfrey magic!
I hope your new home has apple trees.
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