you wont have time to mature the second crops,stagger your varietys maturities or plant the corn you have every 2 weeks

I started growing corn a few years ago too and learned the hard way that doing it in single rows doesn't work the greatest. It's better to do it in grids because it helps with pollenation. Then, you can plant things in between your corn like peas, squash etc, but don't do it the other way around and plant other things and try to put an ear of corn here and there in between or it won't be that successful. I have the perfect link to the best info regarding growing corn. http://sweetcornorganicnursery.com/store/pages.php?pageid=45
I have been buying my organic seeds and starts from them for years, and Bryan is an AMAZING gardener. Check out that link and you'll get some great info about growing corn...also they just launched their website this spring and they gave all their existing regular nursery customers a coupon code for a discount -- I'm not positive it will still work but if you decide to want to buy anything from their site, try INTRO15 for 15% off... Have fun with your corn -- yum, yum, there's nothing like sweet corn! I'm hungry now!

Here is a link that might be useful: great info about growing corn

org_az-
What a wonderful site! I always get intimidated by the seemingly 'complex' methods to growing certain things and think I've gotta create a 4" binder with flip charts to reference as I tend to my garden...I hope it isn't REALLY as involved as I'm reading it to be, but I love that site!

I had a question about the 3 seeds per hole, and leaving 2 of them after thinning. Why would you have two stalks vying for space like that? And when they say 16 stalks per 4-foot block, are they saying to then separate those two so that they are ultimately a foot apart? I think I'm brain dead; I can't seem to follow the simple math.

If you have a 4' by 4' block, you can have 25 plants, 1' apart, for an early/short variety like Early Sunglow. Something late and tall like Kandy Korn you might want to limit it to 16 plants in the 4x4 grid, just so they don't compete so much, being the plants are bigger and feed heavier.

whats with the four feet between rows? Do they mean four feet between blocks? So you have like a block of 16 plants and then four feet with a pumpkin and then another block of 16 plants?

I just re-read the link and I guess it does sound a little confusing how it's written there, but basically the reason for the 3 seeds per hole and thinning to 2 was mainly because we live in a windy area in Northern Arizona and the roots of the stalks link together like your fingers would if you criss-crossed them so they help the corn keep from blowing over, especially because they are shallow-rooted when they are young. Two stalks still come up side by side so I know it works, and even if you live in an area that's not really windy, I don't see why the same principle wouldn't work??? And you then get more corn for the space! Regarding the simple math, it's one foot apart in your row, with 4 feet between rows, so in a 4x4 area you'd have 2 rows of 8 plants per row -- but I know he suggested that at least 4 rows is ideal if you can spare the room. Then, between the 4-foot rows is where you can plant your squash, pumpkins etc. When Bryan told me to plant pole beans when the corn was a foot high and that they'd use the corn stalks as a fence to grow on I thought he was nuts, but it worked and was awesome!!! Make sure you have good soil and you amend and fertilize though because corn can really deteriorate your soil because it's such a heavy feeder.

Oh ok, it makes a lot more sense now. I thought he meant a block of plants one foot apart each way. Thanks for clarifying.