Well… it’s done. We got our corn field planted.
Now, our field is only 6 feet by 40 feet… and on the ugly side of the moby, but that’s okay. Next year our corn field might be 12 feet by 40 feet… if all goes well.
First thing, we saved up a couple cuttings of grass and let them kinda dried up and start to compost. We spread them on the grass where we were going to plant.
It was not really much in the way of grass, more like just dirt and scrubby weed stuff. I could tell that I was going to have to really enrich the area to get our corn and sunflowers to grow good.
So we laid down the nitrogen rich base, about 2 inches thick or so… and then we put down my 600 pounds of cow compost over the top! 15 bags worth!!! Jessy and I did this, and then we kind of raked it all over to nice mounds. All said and done, they were about 6 inches tall in the center of the mound.
Then we made a fence… Actually Maggie made the fence. She’s getting very good at power tools! We bought a little bundle of wooden stakes… about $6 for 25. And two reels of tough thin rope… $2.50 each. Maggie drilled a hole in the top of each stake and we threaded the rope through half of the bundle. (One for the corn field, one for the wheat field) And tied off the ends.
And then we pounded in one stake at the back edge of the corn… and then just kept the tension tight and spaced out the stakes. Now I know this is not much of a fence, it’s actually more of a keep people from walking on it and the dog out of there and warn the park mower guys not to mow down our little seed babies!!! Sometimes they will mow the ugly side since the moby beside us is gone.
Corn seeds look really kinda weird. Ours were pretty shriveled looking. This is the best sweet corn from Gurney’s… and we just can’t wait to see how ours turns out. We planted one row and will plant additional each week so that it will mature at a little slower rates… I’m not sure what to do with ah too much corn all at once…
The very back row will be giant sunflowers… we hope to have sunflowers ALL over the moby! We love them…. and they haven’t been doing well for us the last couple years at our other places, but so far, the ones we’ve planted earilier are all doing great! Nothing has come along to eat them or anything!
That is so cool…. I love sunflowers!
We gave the bed a good drink and we’ll wait and see. Should be a week or so before we see any activity….
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