• @[email protected]
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    87 months ago

    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.

    • @pantyhosewimp
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      47 months ago

      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.

      • @[email protected]
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        37 months ago

        Yeah, basically. They’ll suffocate in the oil, trying to dig through the silk to get inside the husk.

        • @[email protected]OP
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          17 months ago

          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