Corn and Shallots are in the ground
Friday, April 20th, 2007Today I planted most of Raised Bed #4.
I have dedicated half of this bed to Sweet corn. Whilst I had hoped I would have room for 4 rows, I only managed to squeeze in 3 rows of 10. I spaced the individual seeds roughty four to six inches apart, with ten inches between each row. My reading suggests that 3 rows is a rather marginal number for successful pollination of the corn kernels. I will therefore have to keep a close eye of that when the time comes, I may need to provide some kind of manual assistance with the fertilization.
The other half of Bed #4 now contains my Shallots (a set of 10 ’sets’, to make a poor pun). There are lined up in one row against the edge of the bed, so I still have a large empty space behind them I can utilize in future (spinach perhaps?)
I am starting to run out of planting space, but thankfully I’m seeing signs some of my earlier plantings are finally germinating.
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