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  • From: Carrie Shepard <carrieshepard@yahoo.com>
  • To: Healthy soil and sustainable growing <livingontheland@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Livingontheland] Uterly Amazing, a Great Surprize from the Inca Corn Ears
  • Date: Sat, 23 Aug 2008 06:42:19 -0700 (PDT)

Hi there,

My Hopi blue corn will also sprout while still in the husk. I've started
harvesting it as the weather has turned more humid lately, so I'm husking it
and letting it dry inside. I'm only going to save some of it for seeds for
next year, the rest I'm feeding to dd#2's pigs.

The season is too late to get the sprouted stuff to grow to maturity here in
NE OK, but if the corn were started early in flats in the spring, I do think
it's possible to get two crops. I started this corn two different ways this
year -- the first round I just scattered the seeds and then came along and
scattered loose old hay (that the pigs had rummaged through from what the
goats hadn't eaten) over that and watered when I remembered. Then a few
weeks later I planted a flat full of the corn in a recycled pallet homemade
flat. As I had time I plugged in the corn seedlings around the corn that had
grown from my scattering. Then I scattered pole beans around all that and
the winter squash just mulched it all for me.

I think I've become a total convert to asian long beans for hot OK summers.
These beans are the most productive I think of any for hot summers. They
seem to be able to survive and produce on very little water.

Note to self, must order more asian long bean type seeds for next spring.

Carrie
www.xanga.com/firstfarmerinstitute











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