Hi Pat

Thank you for posting such an interesting video! It is very informative and well done.
Corn looks good and probably a variety that I would like, love beans and sweet potatoes for sustainable crops.

Silvia

Thanks Silvia.

I have grown that field corn in central florida and it has made some crop but not close to what it does in this climate. OTOH, SP can potentially be much more abundant there than here, as well as all the cowpeas and noodle beans.

Pat, I don't grow corn here, you need big space, is too much work and the battle of the bugs. When in season the locally owned farms are a good place to get fresh corn.
My favorite beans are romano type and they do well in my garden. Like you said sweet potatoes are the easiest to grow here.

My garden last October.

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Silvia

Your experience agrees with my supposition that maize in general and sweet corn in particular is poorly-adapted to the florida climate and soil. Sweet corn is most likely non-sustainable in that context, requiring irrigation, large inputs of off-site NPK and extreme measures for pest control.

More experimentation with likely maize cultivars might turn up one that could provide sustainable grain production for florida.