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MattCatlin

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I am going to put in an acre of sweetcorn this spring using a 2 row planter. I was thinking if it gets real dry and I had it in furrows, I could flood the furrows with a trash pump out of the creek. Would I have to make furrows with a potato plow and then try and plant over the top of them? I doubt I could keep the planter running down the furrow or pull the potato plow straight enough. How did they do it in past? I guess the cultivator shovels will throw up a bit of a hill. Maybe the last cultivation could be done with potato hillers?
 
You need to buy a Lister Planter. It plants in the furrow. John Deere, IH and several others made a Lister Planter.
 
Flood irrigation is what you are talking about. When I was a kid in Idaho their was an old fella that did all the garden tillage in my home town. What he used for a corrigator was a couple of wooden planks bolted on top of two fence posts cut into 18 inch lengths. As I recall the front of the posts were sharpened. He would pull that through the fresh worked dirt with a team while standing on the planks. Then you could plant on the ridges.
 
I'm a little confused. Do you want to plant in the bottom of the furrow, or do you want furrows between the rows? Lister planters put seed in the bottom of the furrow. If you want to plant out of the furrow, put bedding sweeps or furrowers on your cultivator to make the beds, then plant on top.
 
For a cultivator I have the international style with the spring trips. I was wanting to plant on the hills and flood in between. My cultivator is probably the way to go since its a two row. Then my rows would match even if they are not straight. SO I would hill up two rows then try to drive my two row planter over the hills. Its a disk type planter.

Think that would work?
 
My thought is you need to plant normally and if it gets dry then make furrows with your potato plow (or cultivator) between the rows. If you're lucky you'll have a slope to help the water run to the other end. I had a large garden by a 20 acre pond in 1988 when we had a severe drought. I bought a 3 1/2 horse transfer pump and a long section of plastic tile. It worked well but it took some effort. If you make furrows and plant in the bottom of the furrow, what's to say there won't be a big rain and wash soil down in your furrows and mess up your seed before it gets a good start?
 
I was thinking of planting in the hills and watering down between the furrow--but your idea is pretty good, to make furrows in between after the crop is up if needed. Maybe I'll go that route.

Was your tile slotted or were you using solid pipe and flooding down teh rows?
 
As far as the plastic tile, I used solid and drilled holes where I wanted them. I put together an adaptor to fit the end of the plastic tile and screwed on to the discharge hose. I was lucky there was a slope that really helped. It's fun beating the drought that way.
 
matt:
I have some experience planting corn on the ridges. was trying to get corn out very early, but it turned off dry that year and corn did very bad up on that ridge.

I think you are better off just planting corn as normal then as corn gets tall enough, lay it by with a hiller.

Then you will have your corn rows on a small ridge, roots will be deep and you can water as necessary.

Picture of my one row hiller: This little guy will build you any size ridge you want, works great.
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