Because all gardening is local   Archive for the ‘Corn’ Category
You can avoid corn pollination failure  Many gardeners,
especially new ones, are dismayed to find that the luscious ears
of sweet corn that they expected look more like this:  Corn
pollination failure  Failure to pollinate can drastically reduce
yields of corn  Only a few kernals are present on  the cob!  All
that hard work, fertilizer, watering, and all is just wasted!
(Please note that all the illustrations of corn pollination are
with field corn, as I do not currently have room for sweet corn
in our garden – a problem I’m working on – but the illustrations
will work fine; all the principles are exactly the same.)  There
are two main reasons why we have failure to pollinate: one is
that the pollen is dead, and the other is that the pollen just
did not reach the female flowers.  Dead pollen is common in
years of extreme heat and drought during the pollen shed time
for corn. Corn is rather unique among plants in that it is on an
exact schedule