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Debriefed the day with @grumblesthacook by turning cardboard boxes into starter trays for corn & sunflowers (to avoid

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Corn varieties:
- Cuban (harvested from visiting Havana)
- Mexico (when we lived in Nayarit)
- My 3rd generation saved bloody butcher x painted hill cross

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And the sunflowers from @organicgay! Congregating with two versions of my saved seeds.

Here come the sunnys

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22 hours later

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Corn peeking in

Sunflower and corn update

ready for transplant

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If you’re following the race, maize de Mexico is in the lead, my saved seed in second, and Cuba lagging behind in 3rd

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The white parts are really going to develop into the root systems if I help them. I’m going to bury this corn up to the green leaves that are forming and it really helps fortify them - keep burying, keep mulching your seedlings when they’re this small. Give them living compost

This is how I bury the corn - right up to the new growth. This encourages them to develop strong root systems. I’ll continue to do this as they grow and usually the respond pretty quickly to being mulched