The Survival Gardener

by David The Good

Corn

Corn

The Landrace Corn Experiment 2025 Update

A few years ago, we mixed about 25 varieties of corn together and planted them in a patch. Then we…
Corn

A Corn-Planting Experiment

Back in August or so we put down some landscape fabric to create a small plant nursery area for our…
Corn

60″ Corn Row Spacing

Does planting corn at 60″ – double its “normal” spacing – make sense? When Bob Recker turned off every other…
Corn

Corn Stalk Syrup?

Here’s an interesting tidbit: We spent most of Saturday helping to make cane syrup from sugarcane with a new friend…
Corn, Goats

Low-Tech Cornstalk Silage Production

Corn silage to feed goats on a small farm scale: Very interesting process. And only 21 days of fermentation. Thanks…
Corn, Crops, Pumpkins and squash, Seminole pumpkins, Watermelons

The Watermelon Landrace Project (And Corn, and Pumpkins!)

Two days ago a neighbor agreed to loan us eight acres of unused pasture for a watermelon landrace breeding project.…
Corn, Food Forest, Nitrogen-fixers

Planting Corn and Nitrogen-Fixing Trees Together

As always, I am conducting experiments: This time I dug stations for corn and instead of interplanting with pigeon peas,…
Corn, Experiments

Incomplete Corn Pollination

We did some experiments this spring with planting corn in stations to see if a patch of just three or…
Corn, Crops

Planting corn in stations – on top of the good stuff!

Justin writes: “After watching your video about growing corn in stations when you originally posted it, I thought I need…
Composting, Corn, Pumpkins and squash

Should you plant on mounds in a dry area?

Calen asks about planting on mounds in fast-draining soil: “I’m a native Cracker from [coastal Florida]. I’ve been homesteading on…