My own experience with sweet cherries and Apricots.... I absolutely LOVE apricots - but so does all of the disease and bugs here... The tree seems incredibly difficult to keep alive down here.... I have 1 apricot that went in last year.... and I am seriously re-considering a Tomcot.... but I lost all 5 other apricots to bugs literally eating the trees to the ground... Cherries... Cherries are tough because Birds love them so much... so far - the last 3 years... I have gotten 1 cherry each year in my mouth... The foliage also gets hammered by Japanese Beetles... but they seem to pull through... On Peaches - Scott has great advice.. I would also add Red Haven and Elberta.... They are older, tough, reliable cultivars... Plums wise... Same as Scott - but more so... My European plums don't do well in the summer... Too hot for them - and they go dormant in the summer - and the plums came out very bitter... I dug them up and planted them in the shade last year.. and they didn't die.. We will see this year... Japanese plums wise - so far Methley is super reliable but So-so for taste (Bland and watery when fully ripe) until the very end of it's season.. The kids absolutely love them - so the tree can stay for now... I put in a Satsuma last year - we will see how it does.... If you like making Jelly - American plums are the ticket... but they are very bitter/sour/inedible until 100% fully ripe... I LOVE home made American plum jelly! Thanks

Then plant more seed in limited space up to the maximum density that can be supported. The three key inputs will be highly fertile soil, water from irrigation, and maximum sunlight. You can get down to about 1 plant per square foot for most normal sweet corn varieties but will really have to push soil fertility and provide irrigation to get it to be successful at that density. I would suggest interspersing seed of a very short season variety with seed of a long season variety. That way the early variety will produce and be gone before the long season variety matures. DarJones

yes that does sound right. isolate by distance or by maturity time.

Peaches and Cream used to be a variety but that name now is used by many roadside stands instead of the real name of one of the newer yellow and white varieties. Everyone remembers Peaches and cream because it was one of if not the first bicolour sweet corn and it was really good. There have been many new varieties introduced that are bicolour and are even better than the old peaches and cream but somehow that name still gets used. I guess you can't teach old dogs new tricks! A farmer in Ontario that grows sweet corn for herself!