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some of the tricks i use to grow amazing sweet corn in my homestead vegetable garden. Sweet corn is a heavy feeder and that means it needs 2 things, lots of fertilizer and deep roots. So when I fertilize sweet corn, I add the fertilizer in a row a few inches away from where the roots are growing. This encourages the roots to grow out toward the sweet corn. If you notice, in a previous video I showed you how I plant pole beans on the right side of my sweet corn rows. The sun is on the left side of the rows. That encourages your pole beans to grow toward the sun and forces them to wrap around the corn stalks .... since they are climbers, they climb right up the corn stalks on the sunny side. Since beans supply nutrients to the soil, primarily fertilizer, you don't need to fertilize the side the beans are on. So, I add the fertilizer on the left side opposite the beans. The having the fertilizer away from the roots causes the roots to grow out to get to the slow release fertilizer. That anchors the corn to the ground so they don't blow over as easily. The final tip, I hill the corn just like you hill potatoes, I cover the roots up with more soil as soon as I see them near the tops of the soil. Doing these two things will solve most corn growing problems in home gardens.

People make fun of me on my personal facebook page about wearing crocs, but trust me, the laugh is on them. Here is the story about how i first started wearing crocs and how I realized just how comfortable they are. I was getting ready to do a long distance 324 mile hike over 3 weeks. I wanted a camp shoe that would also work for stream crossings. Crocs had either just came out or were just starting to get popular around then which was 2015. So I thought, they are made of ... I think rubber so great for stream crossings and they have better feet protection than flip-flops so I could dual purpose them as a camp shoe after hiking 20+ miles a day. So I bought them. I wore them around the house a few times and it was noticeable right away they were more comfortable than my almost $200 boots and way more comfortable than my over $150 tennis shoes. After about 2 weeks on that trail, i started wearing them as my hiking shoes. They fit my feet perfectly, just the right amount of springyness yet still offered support on tree roots and rocks. And to be honest, I wear them almost every day since ... its 2024 now. I have never had a pair of shoes I wore every day look almost brand new, sans the dirt, and be this comfortable. So you all can laugh all you want about how they look, and I have touched and looked at the off-brands at like walmart and other stores and they don't even compare closely to real croc brand of shoes ... so try them ... look stupid like me, but laugh on the inside at those who say anything because they are so comfortable.

My sexy crocs (the MOST comfortable shoe ever!). These are not-off-brand crocs. These are real crocs. I have seen some of the crocs sold by other stores and they are a hard rubber or pvc or plastic feeling shoe. Those have got to feel horrible on your feet, whereas real croc brand, at least the off-road version I own are a soft rubber. They are super comfortable and I wear them all the time around the house year round, outside working in warmer months, as shoes to get in and out of the hot tub each night, and as camp shoes on long distance hikes: https://amzn.to/3RGqwiP

10-10-10 fertilizer (may be cheaper locally but check prices because local prices have gotten outrageous the last 3-1/2 years -- triple 10 fertilizer has doubled in price since covid and amazon is often cheaper than local prices or same amount and saves you a trip to the store to get it): https://amzn.to/3KFEj4V

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