11-12-2016, 02:50 AM
I've never grown corn in containers, but I know you can get 3 seasons of corn here in Hawaii; I used to work for a research lab that grew corn on Molokai (no, not Monsanto, somebody at UC Berkeley. You know, Novartis.)
Corn plants pollinate best if there are lots of them in a squarish formation, rather than one long row. I would think 9 plants wouldn't pollinate well. Maybe if you had a grid of 9 pots with 9 plants each.
So where do you get 24" pots? Smiths! They sell washer and dryer tubs for $5 each. I have a line of them for my herb garden, and several with individual plants. Dryer tubs usually have an open bottom (so they're a big tube); washer tubs have lots of small holes all over for drainage, but have a center post that might be a problem with tree roots. Bonus; you can weedwhack all around them without harming the plants inside.
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Corn plants pollinate best if there are lots of them in a squarish formation, rather than one long row. I would think 9 plants wouldn't pollinate well. Maybe if you had a grid of 9 pots with 9 plants each.
So where do you get 24" pots? Smiths! They sell washer and dryer tubs for $5 each. I have a line of them for my herb garden, and several with individual plants. Dryer tubs usually have an open bottom (so they're a big tube); washer tubs have lots of small holes all over for drainage, but have a center post that might be a problem with tree roots. Bonus; you can weedwhack all around them without harming the plants inside.
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