my corn is allways spindly and hardly any ears,what kind of organic fertalizer shoul i be useing?i swithch what part of the garden i grow corn in every year,but get same results. kj

How do you plant your corn? It needs nice fat blocks in order to polinate. 12 ft square blocks at the minimum. No fert is necessary if you do the right planting. The only thing that will effectively pollinate your corn is the wind and the birds. The wind is primary. Corn is a heavy feeder so you are doing the right thing by moving it around each year. Good luck and I hope the crows don't bother yourseed like they did mine.

To really fill out good, Corn needs quiet a bit of nitrogen. This can be added with compost or however you desire. This causes the stalks to suck up the moisture and in turn fills out the kernals. Plant it close together and thick. The tossels on top have to be close enough to allow pollen to drop on the next stalks ears. Also, when the stalks are about 18 inches high, add more nitrogen rich compost and throw the dirt to the base of the stalks, cover about 10 inches of the bottom of the stalk. This will prevent "suckers" from growing off the base of the main stalk. This is as you may have heard old timers say, (laying by) meaning nothing more to do till harvest. You might even cut them or stomp them down if any form. All they do is put on little tiny ears and keep the ears from filling out on the main stalk. Also, water is important in the last stages of filling out, check the ears, once the "blisters" start to form kernals, water it well, at least equivalent to 2 inches about every 2 or 3 days.
Good luck
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Boy... I had beautiful corn last year. I guess what works for one necessarily doesn't work for another. I agree with farmhound about corn needing lots of nitrogen, but from what my 80 year old gardening daddy from Hungary taught me, you musen't plant your corn too close together.The roots need room to grow, 7 or 8 inches apart is plenty close enough, even a foot apart.Planting it in 4 or 5 short rows is better then 1 long row,as the short rows planted in a patch, will insure the wind blowing the pollin thru the patch.Planting it too close together, results in spindly stalks. And he taught me that corn is self polinating. The pollin from the tassles, falls down on the ears of corn on the same plant and also on the others. I fertilized my corn with a Martha Stewart fish and kelp fertilizer high in nitrogen when it was about 7 inches high and again when it was knee high.And mulched it heavy with grass clippings to hold the moisture in. We enjoyed sweet full succulant ears of corn. Of course it was "Illinois Sweet" and "Peaches and Cream" my favorite kind. Happy Gardening.