that evil evil corn leaving all those terror babies all around!

There is corn on my street in front of my apartment. Go into the buroughs much?

It seems like the corn is growing in the same plot as a young tree. What effect will the corn's roots have on the growth of the tree?

This seems like a great idea and is very resourceful. My only concern would be what could contaminate the soil and get on the plants. Of course we are already sold produce in grocery stores completely covered in pesticides. So it probably isn't any worse as long as you wash it.

This is why preserving our community gardens is so important. They give people a safe, clean place to grow healthy fresh fruit and vegetables. Gardening is a great learning experience for kids, too.

This is how "Green Acres" got started. The Druckers moved to a farm when growing corn on the terrace of the penthouse just wasn't working out.

Oh, and corn is not a vegetable. It's a grain.

Corn is a vegetable, grain, and fruit.

Yes, it is a plant. Yes the grains are the fruit of that plant. You pompous pedant. From a nutritional standpoint, it is a grain. Not a vegetable. Not a fruit. Vegetables are things like broccoli. Fruits are things like apples. Corn is a grain, like rice and wheat.

I love the idea of this, but what MidC Frank is no joke. Dog pee and poo (worse offender) is just the smelly and toxic tip of the iceberg. Rat poison (and pee and poo), pigeon shit, anti freeze, motor oil and gasoline are the first things to come to mind.

The general layer of filth, comprised of car and diesel truck exhaust particles, heating oil residue from buildings' boilers, construction dust, that all settles on the sidewalk in addition to the aforementioned stuff gets washed into the dirt whenever it rains. And the rainwater itself is acidic, and carries crap out of the air as it falls.

Maybe I'm just being paranoid, but I'd be very curious to see how lab results from the street corn would compare to supermarket corn, and also organic corn, testing for concentrations of toxins and pollutants that find their way into the food.

question, why is dog manure worse then other fertilizer, everyone says it, but why?

do you feel this way about all community gardens? or just street corn.

There's a reason why people say "eat s**t and die". Fresh feces contain all sorts of live pathogens. Fertilizer does not. That's why sewage gets treated before it is dumped back into the environment.

it's just one of those things and no one wants to eat anything grown out of dog shit -- no logic, just pure and simple.

It's producing food but what kind of corn is it? Sweet? Pop? Field? Hominy?

Hominy is regular corn that has been treated with lye.

I was thinking of the giant kernel corn that is used in posole. Is that a particular type of corn, or does the lye cause the kernels to enlarge?

You see this all over latino neighborhoods, not really big news.

The dog pee gives it a deep, rich yellow coloring -- yummm!

edit - lot = not

Their is a bigger one in Cobble Hill (lot a Latino neighborhood).

they grow all sorts of cabbage in lots of sidewalk tree pits.