My Festivity and Martian Jewels sweet corns are tasseling together and they are separated by two feet, SO, I may get some Festive Martian sweet corn.
Now the Festivity breed has multi-colored kernels, not just white or yellow , while the Martian Jewel has white kernels on a purple cob, but, the Martian Jewel is supposed to have purple stalks (they are now mostly green with purple tassels) so
I am curious to see if the stalks turn color and if the Festive bleeds over to the Martians.
Height for Festivity is supposed to be 5 to 6 feet, well I am six feet tall and it is well over my head.
I have been planting corn , at least sweet corn, on average three to four inches apart, for decades; now while the plants are very , very healthy I think I may switch to six inches next year and may once again start separating rows by 28 to 30 inches
as my corn down South was planted with more spacing due to not a lot of seed for several types and I wanted to make rows, not clusters, therefore; when I weeded down there, it was easier to do so with greater room between plants and seed.
Also, when the corn stalks are very healthy you are in a dark jungle with little room to move about.
