Last year I planted popcorn in my dry garden. I planted it in February, trying for a cold tolerance test, and nothing came up so I replanted. Late May, if I remember correctly.
Start of the real heat. Maybe a dozen plants grew, and I got a handful of seed with no fertilizer, no water, heavy clay soil, and 100+ temperatures (F).
This year I want to do popcorn again, but plant it when the local farmers do theirs.
I also have sweet corn and grain corn. I want to do a separate section of sweet corn, on the far side from the popcorn. I have an area in mind which I think will minimize cross pollination, but I’m trying to decide whether to put the sweet corn in the dry garden, or do the popcorn there again.
With tomatoes, I’m replanting the seeds I got from the dry garden last year, but putting them in the main garden for a different kind of adaptation. I was going to do the same with the popcorn, but now I’m second guessing myself. Only a few of my popcorn seeds came from the dry garden last year. The rest haven’t been dry planted yet.
Everything I grow will eventually need to be dry adapted.