Posted by Mike (WA) on April 14, 2012 at 10:02:43 from (69.10.196.49):
In Reply to: Frosted corn posted by IaGary on April 14, 2012 at 08:12:39:
What would be the advantage to planting corn early, other than leaving more time to plant more acres (and maybe that's all there is to it). In my experience with garden corn, there is simply no advantage to planting in March (or even April, here), until the soil warms up for good, and the rain turns warm.
We seldom have a freeze problem here, but I've seen silage corn fields planted a month apart, and the early one comes up, turns yellow and sits there and shivers- and by July, there's no difference between fields.
You sure won't get an extra "cutting", and with your varieties, you're sure to get a crop if you plant "on time", needn't be early.
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