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Ohio

All my sweet corn is laying flat on the ground due to a storm that just went though.Looks like the roots are still attached to the stalks but will putting it back up and mounding dirt around the stalks save it? This is the first year I have ever grown sweet corn,I put it up all around my patch just for wind perpose and boy did it help today!! But now I Have changed my mind and dont want the corn for just wind protection, and I wouldnt mind having a ear or two for supper soon.lol

thanks Brooks

7/25/2005 5:48:34 PM

Follansbee, Wv

The corn should have been hilled when it was knee high Brooks. It hepls keep it from falling over. It should be OK if you get it stood back up soon, and get it hilled; as long as ther roots are not destroyed.

7/25/2005 6:36:55 PM

Ohio

It is HILLED!!,LOL hurrican MONA LISA CAME THROUGH HERE A HOUR AGO,LOL

7/25/2005 6:38:39 PM

Ohio

Marty, get your wind protection up because its heading your way,Its not a slight breeze ether. Tornado type winds!

7/25/2005 6:48:49 PM

Massillon, Ohio

yeah i second that brooks, my sister almost got hit by a flying cow !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

7/25/2005 10:21:25 PM

Md/ Usa

Sounds like you also did not add enough potash to you soil.

7/26/2005 5:35:35 AM

Menomonie, WI (mail@gr8pumpkin.net)

AHHH Matt if you have straight force winds at 60-80+ MPH your corn, trees that are 100 years old, and just about everything else will lay down.

7/26/2005 8:04:22 AM

Md/ Usa

Strange that my corn did not lay down in hurricane we had few years back or any other heavy storm in last 5 years since I started more potash to my corn. linus only time my corn lays down is when it is trampled by deer or people..

7/27/2005 4:31:10 AM

Follansbee, Wv

Just had an ugly storm roll through again last night. We got no damage from the earlier one, but this morning several corn stalks are snapped off just above the ground. Pumpkins suffered minor damage such as a few secondaries are rolled over, and a couple of broken leaf stalks.

7/27/2005 7:15:31 AM

Ohio

Matt,
I had dirt well mounded around the stalks but does potash help the corn roots to expand better and go deeper? I have noticed the main roots arnt going down very deep. Nothing I could do about this wind,strongest wind I have seen in years around here,

Shannon, no doubt them winds where that strong! but Im not sure how fast the wind gusts where,had to be close to what you said they where.Huffs Pumpkin in ohio was hit pretty bad,I hope his patch recovered.

Monty(not Marty)lol,
I didnt get hit with the storm last night that was suppose to come through,looks like it got you in Follansbee though. Hope things are ok.

Brooks

7/27/2005 8:10:58 AM

New Brunswick

Ours blew over one year and we drove little metal fencing rods in the ground, stood up the corn and tied bailer twine from post to post...thus holding up the corn. Is there such a thing as having corn too thick? Ours grew so well this year and is 5 to 6 feet tall already....but they are awful close together. (Different planting area and none of the seed skipped) How close is two close for the stalks to be to each other?

8/5/2005 8:15:11 PM