Protip from my first year growing corn. Make sure you treat the tassels or ear worms will get in there and eat about 1/2 of every ear. There’s some pesticides you can use, hit we just used vegetable oil, and it seemed to work.
Childhood torture memory of Dad making us put drops of olive oil on every ear of corn in our vegetable garden that was big as half a football pitch. And these caterpillars with saddles on their backs stinging me.
Protip from my first year growing corn. Make sure you treat the tassels or ear worms will get in there and eat about 1/2 of every ear. There’s some pesticides you can use, hit we just used vegetable oil, and it seemed to work.
Childhood torture memory of Dad making us put drops of olive oil on every ear of corn in our vegetable garden that was big as half a football pitch. And these caterpillars with saddles on their backs stinging me.
I’ll have to read up on that! Do you just kind of coat the tassels with it?
Yeah, basically. They’ll suffocate in the oil, trying to dig through the silk to get inside the husk.
Awesome, thank you for that tip! Would be a huge bummer to make it so far only to find out worms feasted and not me