New to digging in the earth an intro and a corn question

[apple_juice]

Hello lovely earthy mama's

After years of working in the food industry and being a food security activist I finally have a little plot of my own.

I have been container gardening herbs for a while and was going to container veg or do community gardening this summer but we moved and we have a yard. I want the little one to grow up knowing how to gorw food and where food comes from.

With all that being said, I have no idea what I am doing. My mama didn't dig

I am in zone 3a I believe and I started out ambitiously trying to grow from seeds but that didn't work out. I bought a all the veg on my list as starter plants and impulse bought some corn.

Now the corn question. What the heck do I do with six corn plants. I am reading that for orn to be sucessful it needs to be block planted instead of row planted and that you need to plant a minimum of 100 per block. Grrr

What the heck do I do with 6 corn plants? DH says to just stick em in the ground and enjoy having them but I would really like to know if there is anyhting I can do to make them grow.

Thanks all

[catballou24]

they'll grow and you may get a couple ears off them, but it's true that in order to have a real harvest you need alot more. you can plant them with pole beans and the beans will climb up them.. plant them in a circle rather than a row, since there are so few. corn is fun to grow, just a tough one if doing it in a backyard garden for a real harvest. your LO will have fun watching the stalks grow no matter what..

[Rhiannon Feimorgan]

Corn might not do that well in 3a anyway. It depends on how warm it gets during the day and how cool at night over the summer. Corn needs a lot of heat to ripen. It's one of the crops I've just given up on but then I'm 2b so I'm that much colder.

The up side is that the corn stalk, minus ears, make nice harvest decorations in the fall. Put them in a large vase.