Re: fooling outside corn rows into growing

Posted by Paul on July 22, 2013 at 08:15:34 from (66.60.223.232):

In Reply to: fooling outside corn rows into growing posted by mkirsch on July 22, 2013 at 07:19:33:

I think our problem with outside rows is we don't get fertilizer
out to the edge so well, we don't control weeds quite so well
out to the edge, and we let grass grow right up to the corn
which steals N from the corn early on......

If we treat that outside row like an inner row, it actually should
produce better, as it gets more sunlight.

Lot of work on that in the past, strip cropping (not strip tilling).
Put 6-12 rows of corn, then 6-12 rows of beans, then corn. The
corn would yield better, but the beans worse. They even got to
putting different varieties of corn, a shorter corn outside, taller
ones in the middle of the 6-12 rows, so each corn plant would
get more sun.....

The loss of bean yield, and the difficulty with planting times
and weed control kinda set back the whole idea.

Paul

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