No, I'm afraid that you would end up disturbing and breaking essential root hairs in the process.

I agree. Instead, weed very carefully around the stalks, then put down mulch to suppress weeds (and retain moisture as well).

Corn does not like its roots disturbed at all.

try this link for tips for planting

Here is a link that might be useful: Howtogrowcorn

look at your seed pack. almost 100% of corn seeds sold AROUND HERE are roundup ready. NICE because you just spray between them with RU and kill teh weeds and the corn never even knows you sprayed.

How did you plant it? In a trench? Level ground? How big are the weeds?

If in a trench, and the weeds are small, "hill it up"! Cover the weeds with a few inches of dirt.

If the weeds are large, cut them off with a string trimmer, pile up dirt around the corn stalks.

"Hilling up" will kill most of the weeds, and help keep your corn vertical when the wind blows.

When I plant my corn, I dig a trench 4-5" deep, drop in the seed about 10" apart, cover with an inch of soil, and
lay my drip irrigation tube along side. When it is about 10" high, I add fertilizer (nitrogen), and rake in soil left from digging the trench to make the patch level. When tassels appear, I fertilize again, rake more soil from between the rows to cover another 3 or 4" of the stalks.

This makes my corn much less likely to be blown over by our 70mph wind, and puts the roots much deeper so they stay in moister soil and need less water. It also provides me with a nice valley to dump my grass clippings in, between the rows, which aids in weed control.

look at your seed pack. almost 100% of corn seeds sold AROUND HERE are roundup ready. NICE because you just spray between them with RU and kill teh weeds and the corn never even knows you sprayed.

Are you sure? What brand name and where can these seeds be purchased? GMO seeds require a contract and are not sold along with regular seeds.

We hand weed around the stalks and use the wheel hoe for the rest.

GMO corn? Gmo seeds?

I WANT SOME!

Oh my, I grow a lot of my own food to avoid GMO food.

I was reading some articles about genetically-engineered feed like RoundUp-Ready corn seed.

It seems that if livestock is offered a choice between Monsanto's GE/GM feed and regular feed, they make a point of ignoring the GM feed. They will only eat it to keep from starving.

Livestock that are fed GM feed are showing up with health problems.

Also, some Canadian and American farmers had switched to GM feed for their hogs, and suddenly the animals stopped conceiving. Some of the ones that did conceive, when throught their 'pregnancy', and delivered just bags of water.

Are you SURE you want GM food?

Sue

Ummm...I'd love to see the link for that study on gm corn. Farmers have been genetically modifying since there have been plants. Science is not the enemy. All new technologies have myths that spring up around them, but as I understand it, the wheel worked out just fine and so will genetic modification.
Round up isn't poison, it's hyper fertilizer, right? My understanding is that round up makes plants grow till they can't self sustain, and then they die, fast. OK, now I should point out, I wouldn't put that stuff anywhere near my gardens. I'm too afraid I'd forget to wash it properly before the kids ate it and I'd end up with giant kids or something, rofl, just joshing, but why do it that way? Just pull the stuff you can get to and weed eat the stuff that's too big, would probably be my solution. Mulch next year or use raised beds, imho. That's my plan, lol.

All the Roundup Ready seed I've seen is field corn and sold in large bagged quantities. The prominant label indicates that the harvest is to be used for livestock feed only and not sold to European countries. A lot of it is also corn borer resistant.

I imagine you are growing sweet corn and seriously doubt any is Roundup ready. You could till between the rows and hand weed near the plants....and then mulch. Weeds can take over fast!

I have transplanted corn....some did not make it and the rest was set back quite a bit. I'd avoid transplanting if possible.

Thanks to you all for sharing your knowledge. I appreciate the comments. I'm not going to transplant the corn, rather just work a little harder for it :)

"Farmers have been genetically modifying since there have been plants"

No, they have been selectively breeding. There is a major difference. With selective breeding, nothing is produced other than what nature could not have conceivably produced spontaneously, given the right circumstances. With genetic modification we can make rabbits glow in the dark, and mix our own human genetic material with farm animals. There's a little bit of difference there because we can circumvent the barriers nature imposed to prevent the creation of monsters.

> Round up isn't poison, it's hyper fertilizer, right?
Well, if it kills the plant it's a poison regardless of it's method. And I believe Glyphosate is a chlorophyll inhibitor, which actually causes the plant to starve to death. I've heard the hyper-fertilizer angle before, but there's plenty of information to the contrary if you google "glyphosate chlorophyll inhibitor".
> the barriers nature imposed to prevent the creation of monsters.
No such barriers exist. There are "monsters" everywhere.

Yes, and most of the naturally occurring ones carry genetic codes incompatible to life, IOW, when species combine with other species too distantly related, they seldom successfully reproduce. Not so when we can surgically implant genetic codes directly into a species without fear of altering the pairing and number of genes.

I'm not a fanatic on this, and we have some products, thanks to genetic engineering, that has made life improved for mankind.......like humulin insulin and arthritis chemotherapy. But, all living things have evolved so slowly that the other species have either adjusted or became extinct and the ecosystem rebalanced itself. We now have the technology to introduce this change suddenly and globally in what amounts to an historical nanosecond. Science has been historically nearsighted and ignorant about how their technology impacts the life cycles of other living things, and no idea in hades how one is related to the survival of the other. We need to be very, very careful about the sequelae of our actions before we make some changes we find out, after the fact, we'll regret terribly.

Today I found out that insect protected sweet corn is availabe. Now I wonder if Round Up ready sweet corn is a reality, also. I'm no longer sure if my previous post is correct or not.