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["Lynda" <lurine AT com-pair.net>]

O.K., here's what I did because the wind up here would blow the blooming 
things over continually.

I had DH make me a reverse raised bed <g>  He dug down about 12"-18" and 
that's where we planted the corn.  As it grew, we tossed dirt and horse poop 
back in in increments.  By the time we got to the 18" level, the corn had 
developed a real "trunk" and nothing blew it over.  It didn't get all that 
tall but we got 3 to 4 ears to a stalk.  AND, it was good eating corn!

Please don't ask what variety as I no longer have a clue but I think I got 
it at Baker Creek.

Lynda
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "EarthNSky" <erthnsky AT gmail.com>


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> I am also failing at getting a lot of corn.  Lodging is my problem-or 
> maybe it is a symptom...windy location?  not enough sun to make thick 
> stalks? I dunno.
>
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> snip<   I'm getting lots of tomatoes this year, but I'm seeing a virus in 
> my Roma X Amish paste that I have never seen before.  The  plant and fruit 
> looks perfect, but inside, there is a black, hard, atrophied area at the 
> seed core where there are underdeveloped seeds.  I've been slicing the 
> tomatoes lengthwise and scooping out the dime sized bad area, but I would 
> like to know what caused it.  I've been saving these tomato seeds for a few 
> years now.  They are good paste tomatoes, mostly a cross between Roma and 
> Amish paste-pear shaped and larger than the average Roma, but I haven't 
> seen this problem before.  Is it a bug, a climate-related disease, or a 
> virus?  I haven't seen this occur in any of the other varieties.
Your tomato problem is possibly a calcium difficiency.  It not only causes
blossom end rot and leaf curl but will sometimes cause what they call a
"cavity".  Usually not in tomatoes but I have seen it happen.  Put lots of
crushed up egg shells in the ground that winter and the following year I
didn't have the problem.
>
Lynda