While the weather is cold and I have the time, I would like to build something to lay a line of fertilizer by the corn in a line, one row at a time. I can use either my tractor or atv to do it. I don't want to spread fertilizer, I did that last year and grew the biggest healthiest weeds you ever saw. I envision a pipe to the ground and a hopper of some kind, but how it would feed stumps me. Any help would be appreciated.
Side Dressing Sweet Corn
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rswyan
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Dunno how much acreage you are talking but do you have a sprayer ?
Last year I used the hand wand on my little 25 gallon Fimco ATV sprayer I got from TSC. Took some urea (46-0-0) and dissolved it (use hot water) and threw that in the the tank and filled it up. Then I dragged the hose up the rows and used the hand wand to spray the solution on the sides of the rows about 4" to 6" out from the plant ..... it worked great and urea is really cheap.
One thing to know if you are using urea (solid pellets) is that you need to work it into the ground several inches ..... otherwise the moisture in the soil will cause it to breakdown and evaporate and you will lose a good bit of it.
Last year I used the hand wand on my little 25 gallon Fimco ATV sprayer I got from TSC. Took some urea (46-0-0) and dissolved it (use hot water) and threw that in the the tank and filled it up. Then I dragged the hose up the rows and used the hand wand to spray the solution on the sides of the rows about 4" to 6" out from the plant ..... it worked great and urea is really cheap.
One thing to know if you are using urea (solid pellets) is that you need to work it into the ground several inches ..... otherwise the moisture in the soil will cause it to breakdown and evaporate and you will lose a good bit of it.
kensfarm
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I broadcast w/ a cone spreader.. then cultivate.. w/ the tines set properly.. they hill the soil(& fertilizer) on both sides of the corn plant.
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</font><font color="blue" class="small">( Dunno how much acreage you are talking but do you have a sprayer ?
Last year I used the hand wand on my little 25 gallon Fimco ATV sprayer I got from TSC. Took some urea (46-0-0) and dissolved it (use hot water) and threw that in the the tank and filled it up. Then I dragged the hose up the rows and used the hand wand to spray the solution on the sides of the rows about 4" to 6" out from the plant ..... it worked great and urea is really cheap.
One thing to know if you are using urea (solid pellets) is that you need to work it into the ground several inches ..... otherwise the moisture in the soil will cause it to breakdown and evaporate and you will lose a good bit of it. )</font>
I can testify first hand that Randy's Urea really worked. I was in his garden picking the best yellow block hot-house peppers that we have seen in a long time. He had a bumper crop and what the deer didn't get we did. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif
Last year I used the hand wand on my little 25 gallon Fimco ATV sprayer I got from TSC. Took some urea (46-0-0) and dissolved it (use hot water) and threw that in the the tank and filled it up. Then I dragged the hose up the rows and used the hand wand to spray the solution on the sides of the rows about 4" to 6" out from the plant ..... it worked great and urea is really cheap.
One thing to know if you are using urea (solid pellets) is that you need to work it into the ground several inches ..... otherwise the moisture in the soil will cause it to breakdown and evaporate and you will lose a good bit of it. )</font>
I can testify first hand that Randy's Urea really worked. I was in his garden picking the best yellow block hot-house peppers that we have seen in a long time. He had a bumper crop and what the deer didn't get we did. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif
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Mike,
Glad ya liked 'em /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif
I remember talking to my neighbor, who's an old farmboy from Northwest Ohio shortly after I had hit the corn with urea. He had seen the corn shortly after it had come up (it was late in the year, we planted late) and it was still pretty small ..... he didn't hold out much hope. A week or so after that it really took off. Unfortunately I never got any pics of it after that .... attached is an image which was taken July 2nd probably around the time I put the urea on. It ended up being around 6' - 7' tall and tasted pretty good.
.... anyways we (and the deer) really liked it.
Glad ya liked 'em /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif
I remember talking to my neighbor, who's an old farmboy from Northwest Ohio shortly after I had hit the corn with urea. He had seen the corn shortly after it had come up (it was late in the year, we planted late) and it was still pretty small ..... he didn't hold out much hope. A week or so after that it really took off. Unfortunately I never got any pics of it after that .... attached is an image which was taken July 2nd probably around the time I put the urea on. It ended up being around 6' - 7' tall and tasted pretty good.
.... anyways we (and the deer) really liked it.
