To grow a crop useful in many respects of corn, it is necessary to know the correct technology of its cultivation. After all, without proper knowledge, one can not obtain excellent grain for his farmstead.
Cultivation of sugar corn
Fodder corn has a higher yield than sugar. But she can not compare with her nutritional and taste qualities. The content of sugars in the latter is much higher than in conventional technical culture. Such cobs in the stage of dairy maturity are unusually tasty and are used with fresh freshness and for conservation for the winter.
The main conditions for growing corn are heat and humidity. Particularly sensitive to plant reaction to spring night temperature changes, and therefore it is necessary to sow it when the ground is well warmed up. It is also important how moist the soil, because the grain, getting into it, should immediately germinate. In dry land, this will happen with a delay, which will lead to a decrease in yield.
It is very important that weeds do not interfere with the young shoots, and therefore the site should be treated with herbicides both after the autumn harvesting of the previous crop, and in the spring after the cultivation of the garden.
Growing corn for popcorn
Loved by adults and children, popcorn grows in the most common area, because they make it from a special popping corn by heating. The cobs differ from the technical plant species by the smaller size of the head and directly the grains.
A very important stage in the technology of growing this type of maize is soil preparation. The plant is very sensitive to good aeration of the roots and nutritiousness of the soil. It is desirable that the sowing of corn was preceded by the cultivation of vegetable crops or wheat in this place. After autumn harvesting, mowing of remains and digging up of soil is carried out. It brings fresh manure, which at the end of the winter once again digs up and carefully embedded in the soil, to improve its fertility.
It would be superfluous to add nitroammophoski to the ground before planting. The site is finely harrowed and sows the grain to a depth of up to 8 cm in well-moistened warmed soil.