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The closest thing I've seen in the area is the use of the corn in the outfield as a part the introduction of the Sioux City Explorers. It's on the cover of Steven Fatsis' book Wild & Outside:



That was temporary. I'm sure that there have been many ballparks that have real cornfields nearby. History says that happened at the old Metropolitan Stadium when it opened back in '61 with "big city" announcers commenting about seeing cows beyond the outfield fence.

As for specifically growing it as a promotion within the ballpark and along the fencing, that may be a first. I was at Midway on Saturday and talked with Klep about it. It's another "Saints thing" and it'll be up to the club to take care of the corn. The first questions in my mind are where will they plant it? and how will they water it?

Klep said that the dirt beyond the fence is pretty heavily treated with herbicide to control weeds. It's also not good soil in the first place so it sounds like they'll have to truck in some and probably put in some sort of box framing to get the level high enough that we won't have to wait until August to see something peeking over the first level of fencing.

And then there's a question of how to water it. The field's irrigation system isn't designed to water out there so they'll either have to get a long hose, big bucket (brigades) or, like the farmers, pray for a lot of rain --that doesn't interfere with the home game schedule.

Thanks for posting those details Doc. That answers my questions perfectly --except how they'll water them (which I'm sure they'll figure out).

I hope the planters are big enough since corn tap roots usually go pretty deep (4+ feet). The last thing they need to have the stalks grow tall then fall over after a wind storm because the root system wasn't deep enough to keep it firmly up right when it starts to top out (at 6-7+ feet)..