I now have a tuna can in the garden...

[Jolly]

Sweet corn requires an inch of water per week. If you don't get rain, you have to water. A tuna can is about an inch deep.

Turn on the sprinklers, fill the tuna can, cut off the water...

[taiwan_girl]

Good and simple idea!! I like it!

[Aqua Letifer]

@Jolly said in I now have a tuna can in the garden...:

Sweet corn requires an inch of water per week.

And an absolute fuckload of nitrogen. Water is one thing, but where you gettin' the nitrogen?

[Jolly]

Out of my mad bomber stash.

[taiwan_girl]

@Aqua-Letifer said in I now have a tuna can in the garden...:

@Jolly said in I now have a tuna can in the garden...:

Sweet corn requires an inch of water per week.

And an absolute fuckload of nitrogen. Water is one thing, but where you gettin' the nitrogen?

I dont think you can get the same "yield" has a farmer would that is doing it, but if just wanting some corn and not worry about maximize the amount, I think it will work

[Aqua Letifer]

@taiwan_girl said in I now have a tuna can in the garden...:

@Aqua-Letifer said in I now have a tuna can in the garden...:

@Jolly said in I now have a tuna can in the garden...:

Sweet corn requires an inch of water per week.

And an absolute fuckload of nitrogen. Water is one thing, but where you gettin' the nitrogen?

I dont think you can get the same "yield" has a farmer would that is doing it, but if just wanting some corn and not worry about maximize the amount, I think it will work

Sweet corn is a big deal where I'm from, and there, you can't grow it everywhere.

[Jolly]

@Aqua-Letifer said in I now have a tuna can in the garden...:

@taiwan_girl said in I now have a tuna can in the garden...:

@Aqua-Letifer said in I now have a tuna can in the garden...:

@Jolly said in I now have a tuna can in the garden...:

Sweet corn requires an inch of water per week.

And an absolute fuckload of nitrogen. Water is one thing, but where you gettin' the nitrogen?

I dont think you can get the same "yield" has a farmer would that is doing it, but if just wanting some corn and not worry about maximize the amount, I think it will work

Sweet corn is a big deal where I'm from, and there, you can't grow it everywhere.

You'd like to hit sweet corn twice with nitrogen, once at the knee high stage and once when it tassles. You can use triple 8 or triple 13, in a pinch, but you run the risk of putting in too much of the other components besides nitrogen.

Or, you can spread in a little decomposed cotton gin trash or some barnyard fertilizer, providing it isn't too hot.

Corn is essentially a grass derivative. As long as you use a sustained release lawn fertilizer with just a hair of iron and no weed preventative, it will work just fine. I've done that before and probably will do so again.