jodi

I just don't think that would work. Your older corn would shade your younger corn (and they need full sun), and the younger corn would rob soil-nutrients from the older corn.

What you might do is research square foot gardening for future corn-planting. In some cases, you CAN plant corn spaced at 6 inches in blocks. I think there's a limitation on the height of the stalks you can plant this close though. If I recall correctly, only corn that grows 6 to 6 1/2 feet tall should be planted this close. Someone here on GardenWeb swears he always plants all his corn w/6" spacing and it does fine, so you'll need to experiment and see what works best for you.

Corn is a very heavy nitrogen feeder (being in the grass family), so no matter how you plant it, it needs plenty of fertilizer at planting time, when it's about knee-high, and again when the tassels begin to form.

Yep, you're right... thanks, Anney! That makes absolute sense. Don't know what I was thinking. Well, yes I do... I was thinking that 12 stalks aren't going to be enough. LOL. Next year, I'll reserve a larger space for corn.

Happy gardening! :-)

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I took the advice of the guy that said intensive gardening and corn go together. hehe I planted 200ish stalks in 44 SF with 8 inch rows with 3 inch spacing. And I succession planted (my idea, hope I don't have polination problems). So far so good. I'm experimenting. Of course I planted successions in rows, not intermixing, so not much help there, sorry. Good luck!

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Jodi

I hope you didn't plant dent corn to eat. If you did you're going to need a very good set of teeth and an iron stomach. Dent corn is a field corn used for grinding into flour, or cattle feed.

Dent corn is fine in the milk stage. Just don't expect it to be sweet. I exclusively grow dent and use most of it for corn meal. But we do sneak in some corn on the cob each year!

George
Tahlequah, OK