Mine did the same thing a few days ago when we had a nasty hail storm blow through. I had only two stalks that blew over, so I've got them lightly staked to a bamboo pole. They didn't need much support, just a little, and it seems to be working. Mine are a bit bigger than yours, but the same idea should apply.

Corn is famous for straightening back up. Its possible that your 2' corn will completely straighten back up.

I quit growing corn. It was absolutely delicious, but just required too much effort, plus the wind always blew it over when it was about 5' tall.

One year, we put up stakes at the ends of the rows and ran string under them, to hold them up at least part way.

But I'm thinking yours will right itself, since its still pretty short.
Don't give up! Even if it doesn't get straight up, it will still grow delicious corn!

I gave up growing corn, also. It was always getting knocked down by high winds during storms or else it just wouldn't mature right. The corn stalks are good for decoration, though. I think you can straighten them up as someone suggested. Who knows? I might sow a little bit of corn later on when it's time to put in a 2nd crop here.

I'm so frustrated w/ my corn...the stalks are about 5 ft tall. I had a big storm blow through and now my few rows of corn look like a miniature crop circle...flat from a UFO landing on them!!!!

I had a lumbar fusion last June so this year I thought I would try to cut down on some of the physical labor in my garden. I had this great idea that I would do what the Indians did and plant my pole beans in with the corn. That way, I wouldn't have to build the bean trellis and they could climb up the corn stalks.

Well, thanks to the storm, the corn is now laying on TOP of all the beans. I'm just ready to go out there and rip it all up.

Should I try and help the corn stand back up? I find conflicting information on whether trying to stand it back up does more harm than good. Does it depend on how tall the corn is??

Thanks ya'll!
jennifer

Its not so much how tall the corn is when its tilted by the wind, but rather how much more growing it has to do. If its fully tastled, probably won't straighten up much, but otherwise it will. I've used stakes and twine to get downed stalks out of paths and away from other crops, but if they're still growing they're pointing more upward than sideways very quickly.

The best prevention against lodging is hilling soil around the base of the plants when it's about 12-18 inches tall. This allows more brace roots to form on lower nodes.

Corn will completely straighten up if the base of the plant is solidly anchored and upright, the reason for hilling soil. Once the base turns over, the top may curl upwards but not very well. So it's the base of the plant that really counts.

My corn was laying flat against the ground a month ago after a storm. It was about 3 foot tall at the time. I left it alone and it is standing straight now.

The only time I have had problems with it straightening up was when it was fully grown and had ears on it. It broke off the roots on one side. It still produced a decent crop but I had to bend over to pick it!

you guys are so great! Thanks for all the advice!

I used to plant in a deep furrow and slowly hill it up. And it would still fall over! Trying to get corn back up in 90+ temps is no fun at all!

My rule of thumb is... If the corn is 1 foot tall or less, it will completely straighten up by itself. If it is 2 feet tall, it will straighten up almost fully. If it is 3 feet tall, it will curve up and mostly straighten up. If it is 4 feet or more, get out the boots and push mud on the one side to ho;d it back up/

I have the same issues when I grow corn. My corn was blown over 3 times this season. I am OCD and can't stand looking at it blown over so I always reset it. I harvested last weekend.

I was so frustrated I posted this.

http://georgiahomegarden.blogspot.com/2011/05/rain-is-good-thing.html

Here is a link that might be useful: My Garden Blog

I have had a wind of at least 70 mph every year since I started gardening in 1994.

My corn got flattened every year for several years, and I wasted a lot of time trying to stand it up again, before I decided to do something different.

I now plow/dig a furrow about 6" deep. I drop in the seed spaced as I want it, and rake in 1-2" of soil to cover it.
When it gets to about 12" tall, I fertilize it with nitrogen, (your soil test may call for something else) then rake into the trench another 2-3" of soil, almost filling/leveling the furrow I planted the corn in.

The base of the stalks is now about 6" below the surface, and can pretty well stand up to the wind. When The corn starts silking, I fertilize again and pull more soil into the corn row. I now have a "raised row", with the bottom of the stalks 10-12" below the garden surface, and able to withstand the wind NWKS sends to me.

Would ya'll believe that last night, I went back out and looked at my 5 ft tall corn the wind blew over the other night and it is all standing up "almost" totally straight???? How does it do that??!!! I'm just amazed!

Easy - I stood up the blown down stalks, packed dirt around the base. Good as new.

Ok. I'm new here. Thanks for all the info. all. I had three bad storms come thew last night. My corn is about six foot tall. Just wanted to add. All I did was soak the grownd. Put t post on each end. Power cord and pulled it back up. Heard a few cracks. But I think it will be fine.