Garden: do I actually have corn growing?
By Robin
@Daelii (5619)
United States
May 20, 2018 5:04am CST
Yesterday, I spent quite a bit of time outside weeding out the grass from my new gardens with my kids. One thing, well at least 10 of them, that are popping up where I planted corn is well this plant.
I'm pretty sure its corn! I've looked it up online and it looks rather similar to those pictures... so here is to hoping!
What do you think? is it? How are your gardens coming?
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11 responses
@Jessabuma (31700)
• Baguio, Philippines
20 May 18
We have a small farm in my province and we always plant corns every October- November.
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@Daelii (5619)
• United States
20 May 18
@Jessabuma those seem so close together! I planted mine a foot apart... Lol
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@Jessabuma (31700)
• Baguio, Philippines
20 May 18
@Daelii hehe!!! This is a young corn plants
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@owlwings (43915)
• Cambridge, England
20 May 18
Corn is a monocotyledon, like all grasses and it comes up with just one seed leaf (rather broader than ordinary grass) and then grows more leaves from the middle of the plant. The stem comes rather later.
The plant in the picture appears to have two seed leaves (the two small leaves lowest down) and the others are branching from the stem. It's a dicotyledon, whatever it is, and is clearly not corn!
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@crossbones27 (48418)
• Mojave, California
20 May 18
Corn grows tall. Are you ready can you handle a 6 foot monster that spits out food?
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@crossbones27 (48418)
• Mojave, California
20 May 18
@Daelii Nothing more free than growing your own food. Vikings you ever seen it. He just wanted to be a farmer. His kids were the evil ones, well just one that corrupted the others but is neat to see because was so true.
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@Daelii (5619)
• United States
21 May 18
@crossbones27 Exactly! with as much as my kids love eating veggies with me. It just seems like we can do that way more and healthier than relying just on the super market. Like seriously, why consider paying 5$ for an itty bitty amount of strawberries we can try to grow our own?!
@caopaopao (12395)
• China
20 May 18
It doesn't look like corn. The leaves of corn should be more pointed and longer.
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@Daelii (5619)
• United States
20 May 18
nooo!!!! hahah
I keep thinking of when I planted a bunch of wild flower seeds. What did grow, I lovingly tended. watered every day and when it grew in the walkways... i transplanted to the garden beds I made leading to my moms front door.
they did get some pretty purple flowers briefly, but it turned out to be briar bushes that had to come down asap! they hurt walking by !
I'm so afraid to be tending to weeds in my gardening adventure. lol
@FayeHazel (40248)
• United States
20 May 18
Oh nice! I haven't grown corn before. That looks like a sturdy young plant
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@FayeHazel (40248)
• United States
21 May 18
@Daelii Ha ha, oh no. I hope it is corn then and not something you don't want
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@Daelii (5619)
• United States
21 May 18
@FayeHazel now I'm kinda like did I pull out the corn starters thinking it was grass? Lol is it to late to add more seeds?? Haha
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@thislittlepennyearns (58134)
• Defuniak Springs, Florida
22 May 18
That's not corn.
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