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Re: SqFt Corn

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I planted four varieties, shortest South, tallest north. I'm located at 47.3
Deg North Lat and the sun only reaches 66.13 deg elevation at Summer
Solstice, ~43 deg at Equinox.

For those of you further south, it should be less important, as you get
higher Sun elevations, if, indeed it makes any difference to the plants!!!!

I am saving all of my corn cobs (compost now, compost later?!?!) and will
report on yields from my four varieties

Regards,
DT (aka Dore Tyler)  dee_tee@msn.com
Doing his own thing in the privacy of his own garden.
USDA Zone 8b, Tacoma, WA
-----Original Message-----
From: Towey, Brian <cbt4489@glaxowellcome.com>
To: 'Square Foot Gardening List' <sqft@listbot.com>
Date: Tuesday, August 10, 1999 9:39 AM
Subject: SqFt Corn


>Square Foot Gardening List - http://www.flinet.com/~gallus/sqft.html
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>Thanks for the information, DT.
>
>I'm sure that crowding *helps* pollenation.  I plan to plant more corn than
>before, to make sure there is plenty of pollen to go around.
>
>However, crowding also seems to result in light starvation for those on the
>north side of the square. (my garden only gets 5 - 6 hours of sun a day,
>thanks to neighboring woods that are not mine to chop down.)  So, I plan to
>give each plant a bit more southern exposure.  Then, with luck, they will
>all pollenate at the same time.
>
>With your high-density planting, did you see stunted or delayed growth on
>the north (shady) side of the square?
>
>-BT
>
>
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