y2veggie

Dear Drjohn4U and all,

Thanks for forgiving me for my mistake with forwarding that y2k post.  And
yes, I DO have some vegetable dreams I'd like to share with you.

I have a narrow raised bed, 32 inches wide and 22 feet long, along the E-SE
side of my house that gets pretty good sunlight in the summertime until the
house shades it in early to mid-afternoon.  I want to grow corn there.  Am I
crazy?

What inspired me was that we had WEEDS there last year that grew as tall as
cornstalks.  If weeds could do it with no watering, mulching, fertilizing or
coddling of any kind, why not corn?

I'm thinking I could do 2 rows, down each long edge, so the rows would still
be maybe 30 inches apart.  I know you're supposed to do at least 4 rows for
wind-pollenization purposes, but couldn't I hand-pollenate that much?  And
in case it's a total loss, I would interplant it with pole beans and squash,
hoping for 2 out of 3 on the same space?

Has anybody ever tried a mad idea like this?  How would you modify these
plans to be more realistic or more likely to succeed?

Ears perked (imagine me with corn-ears sprouting from my bonnet)

Julianne
Zone 6/7
Southern Appalachian bioregion
Upper East Tennessee
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