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Last year we grew blue corn at my parent's house. 

This was all that we were able to get:

8 cobs of corn. The garden was 20 ft by 30 ft.

This year we planted our blue corn in a 12 ft by 12 ft garden and on a bit of higher ground too, but still in my parent's yard. The rows of corn were closer together however and we had a total of seven rows altogether this year. We also put on fish emulsion on all the rows but one. In total we added fish emulsion to the six of the rows five times over the growing season. We also planting squash and pumpkins around the garden.



Started the squash seeds May 22, 2016.


We planted the blue corn May 23, 2016



May 28th squash seeds sprouting.

Exciting our blue corn is over a foot!

A photo posted by Eliza Skenandore (@starrmerrie) on Jun 20, 2016 at 6:40pm PDT

July 4th, my dad pretending the corn was up to his shoulders. We added fish emulsion today too, because the garden is so small we just use water jugs and apply right to the corn.

Our blue corn is getting so large! :)

A photo posted by Eliza Skenandore (@starrmerrie) on Jul 4, 2016 at 10:23am PDT

9/24/2016

9/24/2016

We harvested the corn today 10/09/2016.

This was the corn that we got from the row that did not have fish emulsion on it. It had a total of 11 stalks and got eight cobs but only three and a half with corn on on it.


On the six rows of blue corn that we put fish emulsion on we got a total of 34 of full cobs not all are pictured below. It had an average of 15 stalks in each row.

Next year we will be doing fish emulsion again because we saw a huge difference in the amount of cobs we got.