just thinking for next year as i am currently using a lot for a baiting campaign on a local lake just thought it would be nice to grow it my self, have a large area which can be dedicated to it thanks any advice welcome ... n8r ;D ;D ???
Maize is grow on farms in this country, but as animal feed (silage), and is harvested earlier than it would be harvested as sweetcorn.
For your use, I am assuming you are using it as dried corn, so that would mean a later harvest which could be a problem.
So yes I think you could grow it, same as you would grow sweetcorn, but for me that would means starting the plants indoors, and planting out after the last frosts, not very practical if you want to grow a lot.
Course you can. Just leave the plants to dry out at the end of the season and pull the cobs off, dry and rub the individual corns into a big pillowcase to dry out.
Yes it`s possible-the fields around me are full of it.
But for fishing??-seems like dedication gone mad. Try to buy it somewhere in sacks and don`t forget the hemp.
Chrispy
QuoteMaize is grow on farms in this country, but as animal feed (silage), and is harvested earlier than it would be harvested as sweetcorn.
think you have it reversed. sweet corn would harvested earlier then silage corn.
There are acres and acres of corn field round here. Perhaps it is warmer and drier here. I don't think that they grow it inside first. I grew one patch of sweetcorn by direct sowing and it is now just beginning to produce males, while the pot grown ones have cobs just fattening up. Not a good comparison since they are different varieties but the direct sown ones earlybird have grown incredibly fast. Did not buy seed until end of May and then lost it so it was second week June before it hit the soil.
Apparently they like a soil temperature above 10 C before sowing.
It is used as a fodder crop but I did not know that it was used as silage, it is usually left until it is dry. Silage crops are cut green and moist for fermentation. The green parts of corn are very tough so I did not think that they are eaten by the cattle.