Beginner Gardening: Help with Corn Planting in SC, 0 by Farmerdill

Farmerdill wrote:
Exactly, a rear tine tiller will cultivate nicely. Run it shallow ( about inches deep) keeps the soil loose and uproots weeds that may be sprouting. Throw a little dirt to rows with cultivation which covers and smothers the weeds that sprout within the row, plus the added soil to the row gives the corn more support. Helps keep from blowing down during a thunderstorm. Broadcast the fertilizer before tilling so that it is worked into the ground. Side dressing comes from the concept that with a cultivator equipped with a fertilizer unit, the fertilizer is placed in the soil about 8 inches from the row and parallel to the row.