I'm not kidding when I say I live on a sandhill.
I didn't have plots ready when the good above ground day came around, so I went ahead and planted the corn in the trays. I was planning on doing several sites around the farm. But after digging just a few plots down at the pond, realized I had way more corn than time. In the garden this morning, I dug a hole, added three scoops of mushroom compost (hand shovel), tilled it a bit with the big shovel, then transplanted. Whole process was really fast.
As long as it's dry, corn will last forever. They planted some of the corn found in Aztec ruins and it came up. You can get a good sized patch from a couple three ears. I got the original seeds in those little packs they give out at weddings, baby showers, that sort of thing. I had two packs, each one about a dozen seeds. I saved back six seeds, just in case. The river did flood and kill the corn, but it had made by that time. I only planted about 1/4 of those, so I should be good. The ones here on the sandhill will be crossed with sweet corn. That will be interesting.