1st planting

I got the 1st garden rototilled, fertilized and my 1st plantings of corn in. And it is April 27th.

Last fall the leaf pile had been shoulder high in the part of the garden. I got that all moved to the compost pile and then ended up moving last years compost to a new section of the garden and worked in. Rototilling is a lot of work, when/if I ever get a lawn tractor it is going to have a rototiller attachment. I split this garden into two so it wasn't too bad. But I have another garden that is about the same size and rocky. This one is all sand, other than the sod/yard I worked up.

I'm still using sweet corn seed from 6 years ago. Packages say they were test in December of 2015. Still had great sweet corn last year and close to 100% germination. What I do is plant three rows of corn and these plantings were seven hills long. Somewhere I had read that corn should be planted at least so many rows wide for pollination.

So I have one planting of 65 day, one planting of 78 day and one of 89 day. Then I have a spread sheet that I keep track of when the corn should be ready and try to have on planting ready every week or two. If I am around I will plant as much of the 89 day as I can because it produces the biggest years.

We were to the grocery store today but I didn't even think of looking at their packaged seeds. So we likely have two or three places to stop. I like our local local nursery for the plants already started, and there is another nursery that has good strawberries and then I usually go to a third place to buy the packaged seeds and fertilizer.

I just realized tonight that the bunnies could have gotten into two of my blueberry plantings. The difference is that one area was just fenced and the other was fenced and the plants were covered with bags.