Well last year, for the first time, corn grew in the wet puddle. Now back to normal. Only 1/10th of acre and still too wet…
So let’s phone it in and try something primative:
I built an adjustable danish tine field-cultivator bar to go with my 3 point ball hitch (sweet corn cultivator) so why not a 30 inch row maker, then hand sow 2023 left over corn (never throw anything away! as I can’t find my 2024 spare seed naturally ) and see if it ever grows.
Beats driving over perfectly good corn to plant precisely what likely will rot (raining again now) and non precision planting may get a few plants to shade out mud puddle weeds
Lame but time will tell if a least it will make a good buff viewed from the road
Advantage of 2023 drought: Everything germinated. Downside test weights sucked. I will take a tiny mud hole anytime
UPDATE: (July 4)
Well it was not a total waste of time. Oh sure the hand seeded mud planting is only knee high (by the 4th of July) but so is the rows of corn not totally drowned out. Of course the bulk of the field is over 6 foot and near tassel
I am thinking this is merely a second grazing for the family of deer to nibble on so I need a go-fund-me page for ‘feeding wildlife’? “Hay” social funding might make more $ than corn this year! However I will settle for avoiding mental anguish eyeballs seeing bare dirt … and when closed the usual farmer reoccurring nightmare: Prevent Plant