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modirt 
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Posted: 21 Jun 2020 at 2:39pm |
This was a first. They chewed the corn stalk off at the base. Granted it's super sweet.......but even with that, they usually wait for the ears to fill.
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Posted: 21 Jun 2020 at 2:40pm |
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Posted: 21 Jun 2020 at 2:46pm |
Wasn't it Mayor Bloomberg that said farming was easy? Throw some seed on the ground and stand back? Not so with sweet corn....at least not for me.
Plant it one day and get 3 inches of rain the next. Get half a stand. Wait a couple weeks and plant another row or two. Get 6 to 8 inches of rain in 6 days time......including one inland tropical storm. Get NO stand from that....till it all up and start over. 3rd planting was looking OK until yesterday......hope it doesn't drown.
Get past that and a summer popup shower dumps an inch of rain in 10 minutes.....complete with 50 mph straight line winds to knock half stand from 1st planting that survived flat.
And if you somehow prevail over that......the coons are waiting to clean up what the ear worms don't get.
Mayor Mike must be farming somewhere else.
Edited by modirt - 21 Jun 2020 at 2:48pm
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Posted: 21 Jun 2020 at 3:10pm |
wife planted 3 rows of sweet corn one year..it was doing GREAT... get up to harvest and arrrrgh.. dang coons nibbled of EVERY cob, boy was she MAD !! After that we bought from farmer up the road, a bushel bag for $10 ?....
Don't do spuds no either... darn potato bugs hop over and get the tomatoes.....
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Posted: 21 Jun 2020 at 3:41pm |
Mayor Mike like most farm at the grocery store, easy peasy. 
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Posted: 21 Jun 2020 at 4:00pm |
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Ah the Genteel life of Gardening, JUST with a Shotgun and major Cuss words!!!!
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Posted: 21 Jun 2020 at 4:32pm |
OOPs  I thought.....
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Posted: 21 Jun 2020 at 5:02pm |
Yeah the mayor, he made light of manufacturing also, so I personally took a double hit. I don't think he apologized for those remarks. He is in the media business (Bloomberg Media), so maybe fake like the others. Future Trivia question, who ran for president in 2020- huh, Bloomberg who? I felt like he was personally singling me out, the farmer-machinist "loser".
So the last improvement to my garden fence was to extent it to 8ft to keep the deer out. Still the occasional Canada geese aerial attack. Snack and take off. I can see where a few snapping turtle "tanks" were turned back. Groundhog got in, at the gate, adding plastic conduit roller sweeps. Jap beetles were munching on the corn leaves, sprayed. I hope no life/family/work business takes my eye off the corn's ear worm spraying duty.
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Posted: 21 Jun 2020 at 6:23pm |
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Dont think coons will bother it at the small plant stage - more like groundhogs and rabbitts will chew the plant/ stalk stage
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modirt
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Posted: 21 Jun 2020 at 6:40pm |
I would not have thought coons would do that either, but it was coon tracks in the soft mud.
I know to a coon, that super sweet stuff is more addictive than crystal meth, but normally they wait for the ears. This was a new twist.
Once all the staggered plantings are in, the entire patch will be surrounded by a super hot gauntlet of electric fence. But these jerks have jumped the gun. Sooners?
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Posted: 21 Jun 2020 at 8:46pm |
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i can send you some more!
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Posted: 21 Jun 2020 at 9:59pm |
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A friend of a friend had a problem one time with coon in a couple acres of sweet corn. The way the story went, they put up some electric fence, after they thought the coon were gone. Nope! Fenced them in!
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Posted: 22 Jun 2020 at 8:58am |
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Raccoons are high on my 'Most wanted' list! They get into everything, eat the mouse poison as fast as I can put it out. It kills them, but they can eat a surprising amount before succumbing! Had one dig up two pepper plants and eat the pellet I had planted them in this year. That was a new one! Got to the farm Saturday and there were 4 of those little trash panda's in the yard! It was about 4 pm. The episode that followed probably would have made America's funniest video.
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Posted: 22 Jun 2020 at 9:14am |
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I got a 22 that LOVES racoons... they come in the evening to eat the left over cat food !
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Posted: 22 Jun 2020 at 9:26am |
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If it was fun to pull in LOW gear, I could have a John Deere.
Real pullers don't have speed limits.
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Posted: 22 Jun 2020 at 9:42am |
Mulligan, that's my life right there.  Paul, that would be funny to watch, but the index finger would instinctively squeeze. 
Edited by chaskaduo - 22 Jun 2020 at 9:45am
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Posted: 22 Jun 2020 at 10:48am |
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Dad put diesel in the sprayer and drove around the corn fields. Coons don't like it, they are worse than cats for keeping themselves clean. Since we sold produce losses were not wanted.
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Posted: 22 Jun 2020 at 1:04pm |
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Apparently even the coon aren't waiting to see what happens next in 2020.
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Posted: 22 Jun 2020 at 2:08pm |
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I always put peanut butter in a trap for coon then send a 222 bullet in to the coon in the trap
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Posted: 23 Jun 2020 at 7:49am |
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Reminds me to side dress mine. Thanks for the post.
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Posted: 23 Jun 2020 at 2:59pm |
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Heard tell granular fly bait in mountain dew pan is so potent they don't even get out of the patch before death. Pen up the pets.
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Posted: 23 Jun 2020 at 4:54pm |
Walk into Home depot around Halloween and be harassed by all sorts of inexpensive animated ghosts, witches and such. Why cant they make a wolf or cougar that growls and moves a little to scare off the deer and pests. Instead I see 2d cutouts or bobble head owls and other ineffective devices.
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modirt
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Posted: 23 Jun 2020 at 5:02pm |
When it actually comes time sweet corn to set ears......I always have good luck keeping them at bay with two low wires hooked to my 30 mile electric fence charger. Have a funny trail cam video of one getting lit up.
And if that fails, cage traps, dog proof traps and coil spring traps will thin the herd.
BTW, as per University trials, Vision Super Sweet that I plant is A#1 first choice of coons. They consider coons to be the best taste testers. If they plant 30 varieties, they say coons will focus on Vision. It is pretty good stuff.
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Posted: 25 Jun 2020 at 4:01am |
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coons can't belch, so about any carbonized drink will do the trick, the fly bait just makes death quicker.
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