Is it tacky to grow corn in the front yard?

[Anonymous]

Why are you not growing it in the back yard?

[Anonymous]

I'd much rather you had corn in the front yard than chickens in the backyard!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Practical question: How much corn and how big is your front yard? Honestly, it's not the easiest vegetable to grow and you have to plant a lot of it to really make it worth your while? If you want organic ---then join a CSA.

However, if you're doing it to experiment and as a project with your kids---then go for it.

What do you mean, it's not easy? It's incredibly easy. We plant seeds 4 inches apart and rows 12 inches apart. It grows just fine as long as it's in a sunny location and gets adequate water/fertilzer. It grows a lot better than the pumpkins and cucumbers we've got. Vine borers get those before they produce.

[Anonymous]

No, I think it would be cool. Seriously, I think it would be interesting and actually kind of attractive at least when it is growing and fresh. If you were to harvest it and then leave dead cornstalks in your front yard that would ugly beyond words.

[Anonymous]

Corn is not an attractive plant. Still, I love when people plant up their front yards with interesting or edible gardens. Lawns and shrubs are so dull. I wish our HOA would allow us to have vegetable gardens in the front yard.

Make people wander a corn maze to get to your front door.

[Anonymous]

Total eyesore. I'd think you were selfish and rude.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Practical question: How much corn and how big is your front yard? Honestly, it's not the easiest vegetable to grow and you have to plant a lot of it to really make it worth your while? If you want organic ---then join a CSA.

However, if you're doing it to experiment and as a project with your kids---then go for it.

What do you mean, it's not easy? It's incredibly easy. We plant seeds 4 inches apart and rows 12 inches apart. It grows just fine as long as it's in a sunny location and gets adequate water/fertilzer. It grows a lot better than the pumpkins and cucumbers we've got. Vine borers get those before they produce.

I haven't grown corn, so I don't know. But I've heard you need a decent-sized plot, at least 10'x10', to get proper pollination and nice big ears.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I want to plant in the front yard. Do people around here think it is tacky?

I love you.

[Anonymous]

More power to you!

[Anonymous]

Yes- tacky.

[Anonymous]

Depends on where you are...in great falls or mclean among uptight republicans with unnatural green lawns, yes it would be tacky. In Takoma Park next to a chicken coop it would look fine.

[Anonymous]

Do it to annoy the people who don't think that other people should grow corn in the other people's front yards!

Corn is very easy to grow. You might not get proper pollination and nice big ears with a small plot, but so what?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don't care if its tacky or not, but why grow corn? It is really cheap to buy it. Grow something else. Or better yet, stop eating corn.

A) freshly picked corn is superior to anything you buy
B) it's really cool to watch your plants grow from seed
C) it's educational
D) corn isn't cheap but seeds are!
E) you can make Halloween/Thanksgiving decorations from the stalks and ears
F) if you grow popcorn, it's even more fun than sweet corn.

my dad in southern md grows a garden. since we're all grown up and left home its gotten bigger and extended beyond a typical garden into the front yard. its totally acceptable there. such a rural area still for the most part.

he says its cheaper actually to just buy corn than to grow it.

[Anonymous]

Someone near me in N.Arl has it growing out front -- where shrubs would be. It looks a little odd, but it isn't hideous or anything. Our awful, weedy hedges are way worse.

[Anonymous]

Are you a farmer? I don't think the soil and climate around here is appropriate for corn.