I live in Northern Va, and I decided to start a garden in this the first full growing season of our first house.
I used some Scotts fertilizer when I first planted, and the results have been outstanding. I have already picked the beans 3-4 times, I am getting huge tomatoes (mostly still green though), etc.
This week, the corn began to reveal the tassles and the hair from future ears of corn... which leads me to question #1. Some fo the corn is probably 6 feet tall (or more), while some on the edges is more like 4 feet. All of them are starting to show tassles - why when there is clearly growth differences?
Now for the bad news... Cindy came through last night and dumped about 2.5 inches of rain on us along with the winds. I woke up this morning to see about 75% of my corn laying on its side. (I have 5 rows of about 10-15 plants in eash row). This happened before when the corn was about half as high as it is now. I had just wattered well, and then it got windy. I packed dirt around the base of the plants to stand them back up, and it worked. I did the same thing today, but with the plants so far along now, is there hope the corn will survive?
I am thinking about putting a stake on both ends of the rows and using string to support the corn on both sides. I would have string coming off the stake on both sides connected to the other stake with the corn inbetween the string.
The storm also tipped over one of the tomato plants in a cage. The ground was too wet for the cage to be stuck back into the ground and support the plant, so I had to tie it up.