There is no "one" variety of corn used to make a corn maze. You can use any variety of field corn as long has it has strong stalks, the height you want, and is relatively pest resistant. Reid's Yellow Dent is commonly used around here. Most any feed/farm store will carry several varieties and there are many online bulk seed suppliers. It needs to be intensively drill planted and having the ability to irrigate it helps too. Depending on the size of the maze you want to build 1 acrre, 5 acre, and 10 acre corn maze kits are available that include everything you need. Dave

It's much easier to start lemongrass from cuttings. If you have an Asian grocery nearby just buy a couple stalks and stick them in a pot of soil or directly in the garden. I've never had one that hasn't rooted as long as it has even a small amont of the base still attached.

Protect from rain and critters. If in sun you might want to leave at least one layer of husk so it doesn't sunburn. If in a dry shaded spot I'd pull off all husk or hang by the husk with grain exposed.

Specifically, a lot of GMO research on crop residues and the effect on soil health was done in the early 00s when the question of the time was it's effect on soil health. These studies still continue since it's such a young field of research. Legacy fields and trial cropping fields are/were sampled and tested heavily. While it's impossible to get long-term conclusions out of these studies, the short-term conclusions were heavily skewed in favor of very little impact, if any at all found on soil health or organism mutation. That said, that's no reason to say there should be long-term bad conclusions to be expected. It's an issue people are keeping an eye on. There's been a fear about the evolution of boll-worm resistance in cotton, but every time they find a possible resistant localized colony, they tend to not show up the next season. It's emergence as a population has been very erratic to the point of it being hard to find year-to-year. One of the practices used by many farmers is the planting of a "trap crop" near their main fields which is non-GMO. It usually yields less, but the point of it's existence is to give pests a more attractive option for feeding and to lessen the impact of resistant pest populations from getting large. So far, it's working really well and it's more widely deployed than it's generally talked about. It's a good management practice in our new world of GMOs. It's important to remember that GMO plants aren't just made and sent to market for decades. There is constant "tinkering" with seed formulations/availability and gene stack placements. It's not like there's a corn released and you're going to be able to plant that same one for a decade. It's not just improvements that's being bred in, it's practically akin to a rotation method for GMO crops to help slow the kinds of organism adaptations that may be expected in a population constantly exposed to the same thing over a long period of time. This post was edited by nc-crn on Wed, Jan 16, 13 at 7:27