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| Hi Paul,
We planted the hill corn with this jab planter:
https://www.easydigging.com/seeders-planters/jab-planter.html
This cheap tool does a surprisingly good job of singulating corn sized seeds and can be set to drop 1, 2 or 3 seeds at a time.
In addition, it does a good job of placing seed into moisture at a consistent and adjustable depth.
We have lots of new things going on @ the farm this summer... maybe too many :( :)
PS I will probably manually harvest some of the Indian beans that we are intercropping with heirloom corn but this is my first time growing these legume species so I am not sure how much of a crop they will produce. 2 of the Indian beans (moth beans and matpe beans) recently started blooming. They both have bright yellow flowers.
Joel
WIU Agriculture
Edited by jbgruver 7/25/2024 06:06
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New views of the WIU Organic Research Farm, field day on 8/8
