According to Tom MacCubbins book, sweet corn can be planted as late as March. I believe the Zellwood Sweetcorn Festival is held around the end of May. Your're right on schedule!

That's the thing, it's not sweet corn, it's field corn with a much longer season. They harvest the sweet corn ahead of the really hot humid weather, whereas mine will be trying to cure in that weather. We'll see what happens.....

If you plant a very early variety of field corn in early March it may have time to dry before the real jungle weather starts in July. Or you could wait and plant field corn in August. In Central Florida the first freeze often does not come until late December, and the late fall and winter months are usually quite dry.

That's what I was thinking, too. Planting in august not typically an option as I won't be there and proxies are unwilling, so we'll see if the march corn will dry by july.

That's nifty, huh? "dry by july" instead of "knee-high by july"! A new floridanism.....