George Shirley > wrote in
:

>> Corn takes up so much room that the only time I grew it was
>> when a few neighbors got together and we plowed up an acre
>> for nothing but sweet corn. Growing it at home in the typical
>> garden isn't a good use of space.
>>
>
> Kind of hard to grow behind an eight-foot cedar fence too.
> Corn is wind-pollinated. Before we put up the board fence we
> could grow a couple of rows of sweet corn if we lined it up
> for the prevailing wind to blow down the rows.

In Edmonton, we lived in the river valley and there was (and
probably still is) a photographer who had a showcase garden in
which he took wedding pictures. He bitterly objected to his
neighbours across the lane (members of our housing co-op) who chose
to (in a Dutch accent) "grow food in their backyard rather than
lovely flowers for all to enjoy". The corn particularly rankled,
but all he could do was bitch and find new camera angles. He did
not appreciate it when I suggested it forced him to be creative :-)

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