{"id":11663,"date":"2026-06-26T18:45:48","date_gmt":"2026-06-26T22:45:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/?p=11663"},"modified":"2026-06-26T18:45:48","modified_gmt":"2026-06-26T22:45:48","slug":"with-cool-nights-were-having-corn-germination-trouble","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/2026\/06\/26\/with-cool-nights-were-having-corn-germination-trouble\/","title":{"rendered":"With cool nights, we’re having corn germination trouble"},"content":{"rendered":"

Our first planted corns did very well as it was hot, although dry. However, after the rains began periodically, the nights have cooled considerably. All of our corn seed is open pollinated and untreated. It requires soil temperature of at least 60 degrees F in order to germinate decently. We have not had that and thus, I’ve already had to replant twice. And if the second planting doesn’t come up soon, I’ll make a third planting and pray like crazy that it makes it before frost.<\/p>\n

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To the right, in the clear spot are two rows of potatoes, yet to come up. See all the dratted weeds in the onion rows to the right? Yep, we have weeds too.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Today, friends, Mike and Dara, are here, helping weed and put tomato cages over the T-posts next to the plants, in the rows Will is mulching heavily with old hay. Those two-year-old hay bales are great for that! Not so hot for feed though. This morning, I managed to hand weed the Early Fortune cucumbers and the Seneca Blue Bear Dance corn. Although all that bending sure hurt my knees, I was very happy that at least I could do that much before having to stop. Last year, I couldn’t do it at all, so I feel it is a little bit better.<\/p>\n

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Will, tucking in tomato branches in the mulched cages.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Will brought several more buckets of rotted manure and mulched around the San Felipe pumpkins and Oka muskmelons. They sure do like that, and I can already see growth after only a full day and night. He’s going to do that with the Geraumon Martinique squash and also the Leelanau Sweetglo watermelons too.<\/p>\n

Yesterday, I planted more Crawford and Folsom Indian Ruin pole beans along the four cattle panel trellises Will had put up in the main garden. As we have had a very bad weed problem in that garden, I’m going to keep tilling it all summer. We planted the beans and Gete Okosomin squash far enough apart to till on all sides of the rows and will mulch along them and in between the plants as well.<\/p>\n

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Starting haying at home means fewer repairs later in the field, a few miles from home.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Will cut the little field down below the goat pasture yesterday and today it’s drying very nicely with lots of sun, warmer temperatures and a bit of a nice breeze. We like to start haying at home to make sure all the equipment is in good working order before going to fields a few miles away from home. It’s closer to the shop! — Jackie<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Our first planted corns did very well as it was hot, although dry. However, after the rains began periodically, the nights have cooled considerably. All of our corn seed is open pollinated and untreated. It requires soil temperature of at least 60 degrees F in order to germinate decently. We have not had that and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11664,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,9,26,12,13,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11663","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-equipment","category-gardening","category-haying","category-seeds","category-self-sufficiency","category-weather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11663","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11663"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11663\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11668,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11663\/revisions\/11668"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11664"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}