Let's Talk About Corn on the Homestead | Homestead Vlog | July 3, 2023

Here on our homestead we grow sweet corn, field corn and our own popcorn, we've been growing corn for years and want to share with you what we've learned through the years!
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[@TrueGritAppalachianWays]

*we apologize once again for the messed up audio towards the end, not sure what’s occasionally causing this, but we are trying to get it figured out!* We appreciate you all and hope you enjoy the video all about Andy’s favorite thing, Corn! 🌽

[@GubrathAcres]

We’re so jealous! We planted a ton of corn before we moved to our new homestead but haven’t had a chance to start the garden here yet cause we’ve been too busy fixing up the 100 year old farmhouse 😂

[@TrueGritAppalachianWays]

Good luck with that! We also live in an old house and I would trade it for the world, they actually built things to last back then, thanks for watching my friend!

[@simpsonfarms]

Worked up our corn Saturday Harvest of about 400 ears We are thankful

[@TrueGritAppalachianWays]

Wonderful!

[@lionheartfarmandgardening]

❤ 🌽 It's Corn! A big lump with knobs! It has the juice! 🌽❤ That's some good eatin'! Here I thought that two years ago we had a ton of gorgeous, tall, delicious corn, but not nearly as much as yours! Mine looked small in comparison to your giant field! Love it! That is wonderful! You will have so much of it to store for food! If I didn't live so close to terrible neighbors, my garden and corn would be huge! For now, I am trying to hide my veggies growing where they are safer, and I can just admire your gorgeous corn and gardens! Thanks for another great video ! ❤🌽

[@freesianlover]

I live in iowa and we grow ALOT of corn and yours look good. I have learned a lot from you guys about different varieties and am growing jimmy red corn, topazio beans and Mississippi purplehull peas. I love them and never heard of them before you guys. I watch and order seeds from hoss tools because of your videos too. Thank you thank you

[@TrueGritAppalachianWays]

That is awesome!

[@duncand5148]

❤So glad I found you guys. Like I said finally folks I can relate too. The only thing you do that I don’t is raise cows(which Im wanting to do real soon). I grow corn the same way you do. I grow corn, oats and wheat to feed my animals. Love growing, cultivating and picking my corn by hand. I grow conventional non-gmo hybrid varieties from a company called Sure flex and one heirloom variety called truckers favorite white. I get a lot of ridicule about the way I live a do things. So it’s finally nice to see folks doing what I do and how I do it. It really helps validate my efforts. So many thanks to you both for sharing your journey.

[@TrueGritAppalachianWays]

Don’t get discouraged my friend, keep on keeping on, thank you so much for the support!

[@tommyperkinshuntingfishing8424]

Thank you Andy for sharing your knowledge. I am learning. We have decided that we are going to give the honey select a try next yr

[@Christian-jx3nx]

What was your spacing of different corn types? Any cross pollination making your popcorn so high? Enjoyed your video!

[@TrueGritAppalachianWays]

Field corn is 8-12 inches, sweet corn 6-8 inches, popcorn 8-12 inches. Cross pollination shouldn’t be the culprit at this point in the corns life, it will be interesting to see our results for sure!

[@denniswillie949]

Great job on your corn and explaining y’all’s method of fertilization and growing we be praying for a great harvest, I’m kinda the same when it comes to corn I really enjoy planting and watching it grow and just enjoy walking through my corn patch thanks for what you share,God Bless

[@lisanowakow3688]

Happy 4th! Urban Farmer mentioned this about the Japanese hulless corn: “Japanese Hulless corn grows 4-5 ft. tall and bears 3-6 four in. long ears. This corn is a little nutty, flavorful popcorn that is very productive.”

[@fredfeldt5329]

Have you made corn bread from the popcorn corn? If so , how did you like it? I’m pretty sure it tastes like corn😂but I wonder if there is a difference from seeet corn.

[@TrueGritAppalachianWays]

we never have just our field corn

[@sharonmckee2403]

I love corn but have to limit my intake of it. I really enjoy y’all teaching and showing us tips on garden stuff!

[@michaelbeane2579]

We started with sweet corn and the Japanese beetle would destroy our crops every time and also had problems with ear worms also. Someone suggested a sweet corn called peaches and cream . This corn grows with a tighter husk wrap to keep out the ear worms and the beatles didn't eat the silk . We never had a problem since. And the corn taste was Awesome.

[@VictoryGardenHomestead]

We’re just south of you and moved to our new homestead in March. We started our new garden on raw, compacted clay and ours just looks pitiful. It’s starting to put some tiny ears right out of the top of the stalk - no tassels, just finger sized ears. Is it too late in the year to till it in, amend, and replant?

[@TrueGritAppalachianWays]

Depending on where you are at you may definitely have time to replant, we just replanted that sweet corn that was tasseling at a foot tall. It may be right before the first frost before we get a harvest but we are going to give it a go!

[@TheUnNamedSeed]

Great video! I'm growing some field corn this year for the first time, it's growing good, I'm excited to see what I get.

[@TrueGritAppalachianWays]

Awesome! I hope it turns out great for you!

[@lindaedwards9756]

Love any kind of gardening videos. 😊

[@HomeCraftNThings2]

I had 8 ears of corn on one stalk just last week. I made a video on my corn drying up, I guess because of the stress of the sun. I hope to replant some soon and pay more attention. You have a nice garden and great rows of corn going on in your garden. Hope they will give you a great yield.

[@classicrocklover5615]

Eight? I've never heard of so many! What was the variety?

[@tommyblanchard4465]

Really interesting. thanks

[@wesley1384]

i love corn too. Cant wait to grow it again.

[@desertflower9557]

I enjoyed your video. I planted a very small bed of sweet corn this year. I cut down the spent ones yesterday, it was stressed, I knew because I couldn’t water it as well as it should have been and it began to go downhill. We got a few ears. I noticed several of those tiny ears you talked about had developed. Thank you for your trial fields. I am saving the husks and will fertilize the bed with it for next time.

[@lydiaahubbell8545]

i grew up in the 1970's eating trucker's favorite my grandfather grew as field corn, but we ate it and loved it. I like my corn chewy and buttered and salted and I like corn that separates from the cob instead of collapsing when bit into and leaving deflated, partial 6:00 hulls stuck to the cob. I can't remember if we ate the yellow variety, or the white kind, but I prefer bright yellow corn.

[@lucindasutt7365]

I liked seeing the other crops planted where corn did not come up. You make good use of all your growing space. Heirloom varieties are hardy I think. Also, I heard, if you can, to get starts of fruit trees, bushes, from local neighbors, who know their varities do well in your area. For your family you care what you feed your children. You'll always raise clean healthy food that can't be bought. Thanks

[@donaldwells2102]

Great job Andy on the lesson about growing corn,I learned a lot, you've got a lot experience in growing corn, and as they say,experience is a great teacher. Thanks Megan another good video,appreciate all you and Andy do to promote good farming practices 😊.

[@TrueGritAppalachianWays]

Thank you!

[@backwoodshomestead482]

29:48 tie a ribbon around that one and save you some seed if the ears make good. Thats a fine corn plant!

[@jvin248]

If you have sweet corn get away from you (gets too ripe to eat) then let it continue drying, shell the ears, then bake them in the oven sprinkling salt on them. they won't pop like popcorn but rather be a crunchy snack kind of like corn nuts. Heirloom corn has much higher protein than hybrid/gmo, the dark kernel heirlooms can have as much as five times the protein of the commercial hybrids. My Reids Yellow Dent hybrid reached fourteen foot tall last year. I'll see how the new heirlooms do this year (I switched to red/purple/blue high protein). Don't give up on your clover. I used winter rye, planted the corn into it, and roll-flattened the rye into 'mulch in place straw' right after the corn emerged that way I kept something growing or the ground covered all the time -- really helped when we had five weeks of no rain. I'd suggest trying that on your hill-top field. This fall I'm mixing alfalfa in with the rye. Researchers say if you can get 8-12 plant species of 4 functional groups (grass, broadleaf etc) "that is as good as putting nitrogen down".

[@TrueGritAppalachianWays]

Awesome!! Thanks so much for the advice, we are always learning!

[@jerrylee690]

Thanks for the info. Very helpful

[@Calamity_Joan]

We planted corn, only one row, because of space, but it's taller than me. Fertilized by chicken droppings and I must say it's doing wonderful. Got two, or three ears per plant. Pray we get something out of it. Love your knowledge and commentary.

[@TrueGritAppalachianWays]

Fingers crossed you will get a good harvest 🤞🤞

[@bryongriffey2633]

I sure enjoy your video's you guys are great

[@galestegall6255]

Hello Megan, we enjoy watching your KZbin videos. Was wondering if you have a recipe for making cornbread from your home grown corn. We grew our own hickory king corn last year. I have been searching for a recipe that is not mostly flour. I’m 78 years old and know my grandma didn’t add flour to her cornbread, if so not much. Been looking and trying to make a decent cake of bread. I normally use a “recipe”, mostly just scratch cooking. I realize I will earn as I go. Thank you for any help

[@TrueGritAppalachianWays]

Hello my friend, thank you for your kind words! Honestly I am still experimenting and trying to figure that exact thing out myself. I have not had great luck with my cornbread so far with only using cornmeal. I'm like you I know my great granny didn't use flour, but I can't quite get it figured out... I'm still trying tho lol. I wish I was of more help! Have a great day my friend!

[@fredfeldt5329]

I saw your sorghum series. Now I’m wondering what it would be like to juice the sweet corn stalks , or even the shaved cobs? And reduce it like sorghum?

[@TrueGritAppalachianWays]

im not sure

[@bryongriffey2633]

The hair on the ear is silk top is tassels

[@pmartin6759]

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[@lanettedavis8688]

Wow! That’s some tall corn

[@flutievids]

Thanks so much for a very informative video about your corn. I learned so much!!!

[@TrueGritAppalachianWays]

thank you

[@brandyhamm7435]

What do yall do with the field corn. Dome people eat it and make grits,cornbread and some feed to animals. Just curious

[@TrueGritAppalachianWays]

We actually do both, we feed it to our animals and we make cornmeal/grits from it. It makes the best cornbread you’ll ever eat

[@tinacutright1133]

I got a problem with my corn. It has some gritty yellowish bugs. What are they and how can I treat it to save my corn.

[@TrueGritAppalachianWays]

Thats a new one on me! i really dont know the answer too. something like spinosad may work

[@TheRoadfarmer]

Should tell your viewers that sweet corn and popcorn should not be planted anywhere close to each other cause they will cross pollinate and both won't be worth a damn. Your popcorn plot was a good distance away. And those are silks on top of the ears. The tassel is where the pollen comes from on top of the whole plant

[@TrueGritAppalachianWays]

Also we had to timed so that one would be tasseling before the other.

[@christymartin3846]

Wow that’s the chicken fertilizer corn! Awesome 👏 Thank you, Andy, for taking the time to explain the difference between Sweet corn and Field corn. I’m sold, I definitely want to grow my own popcorn 🍿 I want those seeds, wow! “Andy & the Cornstalk“..lol. Thank you Andy, I look forward to seeing next month’s episode of “Corn, all things Corn”❤❤y’all have a blessed one

[@waltermutz3187]

This is Walter Mutz from Green Ridge in Central Missouri. I have a question. Does Jimmy Red have as good a stalk as the Hickory King? Years ago I planted Reid's Yellow Dent heirloom corn, and it didn't have a very good stalk. It was popular in the mid-west in the 1930s. Any rate I enjoy all of your videos. Thank you very much. Walter.

[@TrueGritAppalachianWays]

ours had a decent stalk but nothing like the hickory king

[@waltermutz3187]

I was looking at my ancestry the other day, and I have a three greats grandfather named John Bennett Kennedy who lived in Guilford County, North Carolina. Where is that in North Carolina? Is that close to where you all live? He was born around 1782.

[@robertsherman9975]

This brings back many memories of long ago. Being one of 17 children, my parents had a garden yearly. The plot was large enough to meet our needs and more. My parents shared the bounty with many neighbors. I always looked forward to hearing the corn grow. I also remember my mother sending to the garden to pick carrots and cabbage in the late fall, early winter. Though it’s been 50+yrs, I surely miss the days of yesteryear ! Thank you and best regards !

[@timswafford5047]

Live it

[@KathyRusho]

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[@lydiaahubbell8545]

did you update the popcorn harvest?

[@TrueGritAppalachianWays]

yes there was a video on it

[@ricksmith4372]

What do yall use to control worms in ur corn

[@TrueGritAppalachianWays]

nothing really on the field corn, on the sweet corn sometimes I spray it with spinocide just as soon as it starts to tassel

[@christymartin3846]

Wow that’s the chicken fertilizer corn! Awesome 👏 Thank you, Andy, for taking the time to explain the difference between Sweet corn and Field corn. I’m sold, I definitely want to grow my own popcorn 🍿 I want those seeds, wow! “Andy & the Cornstalk“..lol. Thank you Andy, I look forward to seeing next month’s episode of “Corn, all things Corn”❤❤y’all have a blessed one

[@bubbahouseman845]

How you pick your field corn

[@TrueGritAppalachianWays]

the past few years has been by hand

[@TheRoadfarmer]

That clear gel on the brace roots has a bacteria that converts atmospheric nitrogen to a form the corn can use.

[@TheRoadfarmer]

And that Jimmy Red corn was a favorite of guys who might have mashed it and boiled it and collected the evaporation liquid if you know what I mean ...

[@TrueGritAppalachianWays]

oh yeah I've heard it makes some good shine!

[@RKOuttathebox]

My corn isn't even up to me knee yet.🥲

[@TrueGritAppalachianWays]

Hopefully it will get there!