I put corn in my garden this year, not really with the expectation that I'd get a whole lot of ears out of it. I just thought it would be fun to give it a try.
I proudly pointed the plants out to my father-in-law, who grew up on a farm and was visiting last week.
He pronounced my crop "anemic" and said it wouldn't do anything without a lot of Miracle-Gro.
So now, naturally, I'm a woman on a mission, out to prove I can grow corn without chemical fertilizers.
I've already bought some compost "tea" from the Hamilton Crop Circle guy, who sells jugs of the low-tide smelling stuff at the JFX farmers' market and at Mill Valley General Store in Remington. (He was just the subject of a story by The Sun's Rob Kasper because he hauls farmers' market waste over to Our Daily Bread.)
Anybody have any corn-growing tips for me?
AP photo of a slightly more successful corn farm than my own