March Corn

[MtnCreek]

Planted corn today. About 10 to 14 days early going by the calendar. It's warm now with warmed soil, but going to dip back into the 30's through Tuesday night then warm back up. Enough rain in the forecast for the next two weeks that getting something planted was not a sure thing. We'll see.

 

[footsteps]

What state?

 

[MtnCreek]

NW GA. Last spring freeze is usually around April 15.

 

[Rthur]

How's the replant on March planted corn with your seed variety?

R

 

[footsteps]

Should be 4 weeks out in upstate NY. Corn is knee high by 4th of July. Fields are water logged right now.

 

[MtnCreek]

If it sprouts it'll do it in 10 - 14 days. If it doesn't, that'll put me right on time for typ planting date, assuming I can get it in. Been some strange years lately.

 

[lightman]

They started planting it here about 2 weeks ago. I hasn't been warm enough for it to come up yet.

 

[armorpl8chikn]

NW GA. Last spring freeze is usually around April 15.

You are just down the mountain from me.
We call that cold snap dogwood winter. I live at 2800ft and we usually have a blackberry winter about first week of May. Had a honeysuckle winter a few years ago, my wild rasberries had set fruit. Killed a bunch of trees around here and wiped out my rasberries. They have never recovered.

My peach tree bloomed 2 weeks ago. I'm afraid I may not get anything off of it this year. If it sets fruit I'll at least get a few.
I'll be glad to move to Alabama so I can have pecan and plum trees again.
You can have plums up here but you might get fruit once every ten years if you are lucky.
You can have all the apples and old timey pears you want....but I don't really want them.

 

[Codiekfx400]

I am in Northwest Illinois normal planting date here is last week of April. If you planted that corn into good soil conditions it will grow. Frost on small corn plants won’t hurt a thing. I had some 3 years ago at v2 completely frosted off and in two days it was growing again. As far as cold soil the next few days you could experience some chilling injury. I have had corn in the ground for up to 25 days before it emerged And it still yielded fine. Good luck with your production because the price sure sucks.

 

[Snipe260]

Have you ever planted cotton?

 

[MtnCreek]

I've thought about planting a few rows of it around the perimeter to act as a repellent.

 

[Snipe260]

I've thought about planting a few rows of it around the perimeter to act as a repellent.

Lmao!??

 

[Niles Coyote]

Spring was last week here, we're back to winter now. Enjoy your warm soil.

 

[armorpl8chikn]

I've thought about planting a few rows of it around the perimeter to act as a repellent.

I'll be laughing about that for a week.

 

[supercorndogs]

The soil is barley warm enough here for the daffodil's, tulips, clover and asparagus to start. We have about a month and half before our average last frost. We are pretty safe by mid May. Thats early corn here. There are times of year I wish we more zone 8ish, They are not midsummer though. I will take a dry 104 over a humid 90 any day, I don't think corn would thought.

It was about 80 on Thursday, and Friday, snowed about 5 inches Friday night sometime between bed time at 12am and and when I woke up at 4am. Must have been quiet the torrent. Who knows how much had melted on the ground before I woke up. The weather reminds of when I was little in the 80s. I expect late and early hard freezes, but I didn't consult the ground hogs....

 

[Veer_G]

... The weather reminds of when I was little in the 80s.

The 80s? You kids make me giggle.

 

[4cDragon]

I'm in DFW, TX crazy past 8 months of weather for us. Normally we are at risk of a freeze until 4/10 and frost until 4/15, but this year it looks like it might be over for us. Woke up to 37 this morning, but warming after today and nothing long range. Mesquite trees are what the old timers say will tell you when the freezers are over, but I saw that proved wrong a year or two ago. That was the first time in my 52 years it was proved wrong. The Mesquite trees will probably pop today or tomorrow by the way they look. If the old timers forecasting is correct we will not have any more frosts in this area.

 

[supercorndogs]

The 80s? You kids make me giggle.

I barley feel like a kid looking back. Looking forward, I feel like a child looking at the world for the first time.

Not like in my 20s when I had it all figured out already. To be willing and astute to enough to evaluate and accept the wisdom of other 16 years earlier. Too much pride in the young me. Younger me I mean....

 

[Sean the Nailer]

Still have Ice and snow on the fields up here in The North. (North of The Wall?) Rule of thumb here, is no planting before 3rd weekend of May.

Gotta watch out for the Wildlings, you know. Seriously though, ya'll talking about getting crops in already and we're still up here thinking "we're hoping it's going to be a good season to come" yet. That and we're still dealing with floodwatch because of a lot of the snow's ya'll got. It's all coming here, to us.

 

[pmclaine]

Good luck and fair weather to all you green thumbs.

Planting must be bittersweet....

There goes your uninterrupted range.

 

[Veer_G]

Good luck and fair weather to all you green thumbs.

Planting must be bittersweet....

There goes your uninterrupted range.

Well, if we get an ear of corn with a through and through, at least we know where it came from.

 

[ArmyJerry]

 

[Rthur]

Earliest corn planting I've seen was March 14.
Mind you this is in central Illinois.
Several years ago we had a late frost and it smoked about 1/3 of all the corn planted in
central IL.

R

 

[Cheyenne Bodie]

I live in VA and we're not planting until late April. Thing is though, we don't really have a gradual spring anymore. Because of the humidity, once spring hits, it hits like a fucking truck. Might be able to do it sooner, but folks aren't risking whole crops for a one week jump. Mother nature has been a bitch the last few years.

 

[MtnCreek]

I think we're in for a hot/dry summer here. Normal rain total is about 54"; we got about 80" last year. For the average to be the average, there's got to be some dry years.

 

[DrainTheSwamp2017]

We still have too much ice and snow to even open the doors on the machine shed to get the corn planter out.

 

[Veer_G]

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"Why, look, Martha. It's that young Hogg boy."

 

[deersniper]

Going to be a decent amount of unplanted acres here. A lot of new spring heads and swamps this year. All that rain has to go somewhere.

Good luck with the corn. Early seems to be the best way to go. Later corn looked better last year but yielded a lot less

 

[Dewey7271]

Planting must be bittersweet....

There goes your uninterrupted range.

Still have mine for a month. Late April corn planting.
Other than the cold being able to shoot pretty much as far as I can sensibly is nice.

 

[Dewey7271]

And, I agree w @Veer_G
Kid in the 80s. Wow.
I HAD kids in the 80s.

 

[Codiekfx400]

@MtnCreek How is your corn doing?

 

[Loonhunter]

@MtnCreek How is your corn doing?

Dang!
I just flushed and forgot to look

 

[oneshot86]

And, I agree w @Veer_G
Kid in the 80s. Wow.
I HAD kids in the 80s.

you old geezer...
lol

 

[MtnCreek]

@MtnCreek How is your corn doing?

Sprouted and rows are pretty full as of 2 days ago. This week's been lows in the mid to upper 50's and hit low 80's for yesterday's high. It's Spring here.

 

[Codiekfx400]

Well you got it out of the ground that is half the battle.

 

[MtnCreek]

Well you got it out of the ground that is half the battle.

It things work out, I'll be setup there before light in the morning to bust a crow or two. Best scarecrow is dead crows.

 

[Sean the Nailer]

Still snow on the ground here.
Planting won't take place for over another month.

 

[spurrnch]

Snowing this morning. Got married June 5th 1999 outdoor wedding and it snowed that morning. Guess I haven't seen it snow in July here lol.

 

[JoeZ]

Planted some peas in the garden on Monday and now they're under 3 inches of snow. Thought winter was over. Damn old man winter just won't let go. I guess I'll go buy ammo.

 

[deersniper]

Plant any beans yet?

 

[MtnCreek]

No sir. But it's plenty warm enough here.

 

[sirhrmechanic]

Spent today and part of yesterday pruning and tying more than 180 first year grape vines... 200 to go. Plus limbed buck trees and cut brush on 150 yards of fence. Spring is too much work. Guess who will sleep well tonite???

Sirhr

PS. ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ

 

[AIAW]

NW GA. Last spring freeze is usually around April 15.

My father lives in Cartersville. He says the weather is still a little up and down at the moment there. Not like you guys haven't had a lack of rain out there (like every 3 days for a year or more)!

 

[MtnCreek]

Crazy weather. My best guess is take advantage of the moist soil and milder temps. A couple weeks may make a big difference come July.

 

[MtnCreek]

Spent today and part of yesterday pruning and tying more than 180 first year grape vines... 200 to go. Plus limbed buck trees and cut brush on 150 yards of fence. Spring is too much work. Guess who will sleep well tonite???

Sirhr

PS. ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ

What's that, about 2 Row mi of grapes? Mind if I ask what you'll do with them?

 

[camotoe]

I've thought about planting a few rows of it around the perimeter to act as a repellent.

Now that's some funny shit

 

[Sean the Nailer]

What's that, about 2 Row mi of grapes? Mind if I ask what you'll do with them?

Cognac!!!!!!

 

[sirhrmechanic]

What's that, about 2 Row mi of grapes? Mind if I ask what you'll do with them?

Not that long... nursery plot so the plants are only about 4 feet apart. So just over 1/4 mile.

Next spring, every second plant will be moved into its final plot at a much wider spacing.

Doing with them... I am starting to translate about 20 acres of pasture land to commercial vineyard. My pastures are now just a giant lawn. I've been looking for something to do with most of it and after scratching out business plans for goats, hops, daylillies, etc... settled on grapes. That was part of the reason behind my motorcycle trip in France a few years ago. I was visiting battlefields... and vineyards! Got a PhD education on setting up a vineyard from some real masters around Beaune and Burgandy. The people in Bordeaux were snobby pricks... but the folks in Burgandy were just awesome!!!

Our wine industry here is booming, but has a massive grape shortage. Most of the wine is only partial local-grown, the rest imported juice and must from NY and other states. So planning on doing a commercial grape crop, but not making wine myself. I'll sell the grapes for wine-making. Going to be about a 8-10 year project total. So far been at it two years and the plots are coming in nicely after last year's disaster when we lost almost every plant due to a spring hard freeze. But this year, 99.5% plant survival and they are doing great!!!

Patience... Goal is to have about 600 - 800 vines/acre within the next 10 years.

Nice, self-sustaining cash crop and a working commerical vineyard enhances the value of the Schloss Nitrocelluolse property substantially!!! Plus will give me an excuse to buy a Col Sanders outfit and sit on my deck with a mint julep yelling down at the field hands... Just 'sayin.

Cheers,

Sirhr

And after 2 days of it... I have to wait a few days to do the remainder, because the snow 'just' came off them. And every inch of my body hurts...

 

[oneshot86]

grapes are getting very popular down here also...

you could make yourself famous with hopps right now, if your climate is good for them...

we have a couple ornamental hopps growing here, but its too warm to commercially grow them for beer. regardless, we get calls some what frequently from the brewerys locally.

here, anyway... grapes get picked by the buyers and the farmer gets paid retail, same with our blueberrys...very much good business

also, dont necessarily grow the vines for sole production, grow them also for retail sale, or even wholesale them to nurserys, like us here.
you wouldnt immagine how well we do with our edibles in our nursery, from bananas to apples to blackberrys to guava to peaches

we all are at the mercy of mother nature, but growing is very profitable. hemp and marry jane is extremely popular, so much so, that
farms and businesses are converting over and leaving massive openings for anything edible. its a good time to grow

 

[deersniper]

April 9 corn almost up