With that little bit of corn, you’re probably going to want to hand pollinate. They recommend at least 4 rows about 15 inches apart. Corn is wind pollinated, so it needs a sizable plot and open exposure to get good harvest without help.
Seconding this. First time I did corn, I was disappointed at how weird and shriveled every ear came out. Like, some of them had good, edible spots, bit the rest looked diseased and I thought for sure it was some kind of fungus or pest. Nope. Just didn’t get fully pollinated.
With that little bit of corn, you’re probably going to want to hand pollinate. They recommend at least 4 rows about 15 inches apart. Corn is wind pollinated, so it needs a sizable plot and open exposure to get good harvest without help.
Seconding this. First time I did corn, I was disappointed at how weird and shriveled every ear came out. Like, some of them had good, edible spots, bit the rest looked diseased and I thought for sure it was some kind of fungus or pest. Nope. Just didn’t get fully pollinated.
Some good examples of what can go wrong and why
I’m going to set up a second 4’x4’ next to this one and that hopefully helps, but yeah sounds like I’ll need to help my plants make out