Your plant nemesis

[bridgetmkennitt]

We all have at least one. It's that plant that you try to grow and grow, but for some reason or another, it just dies or doesn't bloom or doesn't grow any vegetables.

What plant do you consider your nemesis?

Comments

[tielan]

Corn like really really rich soil. (As in, really rich. You can't fertilise it too much.)

It needs to be planted in blocks because - as someone else noted - wind pollination. Also, this year, I had "asshole corn" where the pollen stamens opened up and got fluffy about 2 weeks before any of the corn silks even showed their heads. I ended up having to harvest the pollen and hand-pollinate them, so the harvest was a bit sketchy this year.