Maybe I’m jumping the gun a little, but the sweetcorn is going great guns this year. I have had real difficulty growing it in the past, with either slugs eating the seedling or them drying out from lack of water, or just a small withered selection of plants. This year I decided to go for it a little more…and ended up cheating, well, sort of.
The plants in the top picture are all in our garden and are grown from seed. They are doing well, even if the Rhubarb thinks it’s a teenager putting on a growth spurt and crowding out their sun. The plants in the picture directly above were bought from our local neighbourhood garden centre and cost me no more than £4. They are well developed, free of disease and hassle free. Yes, I know that they aren’t strictly ‘ours,’ but sweetcorn are so difficult to grow in my experience, and this method is so cost effective, especially as buying that in seeds would cost more than £4!
With hindsight I suppose it would have made more sense staggering the sowings as we will have a glut, but on the brightside, a sweetcorn BBQ where we provide the veg sounds like a good idea!
July 1st, 2009 at 6:24 am
And you can freeze it, just chuck the whole cob (leave included) into the freezer and it will be great.
Plants are looking great, I thend to find that if you can get the seeds to germinate then corn is fairly hassle free (in my 1 years experience!). Looking forward to the first fresh cob.
July 7th, 2009 at 4:38 pm
I have also ‘cheated’ this year – sweetcorn is my nemesis! That top pic looks like my bed – rhubarb and sweetcorn together, I’ve also got some corgette aswell, to grow on the floor. Mine have got the little tassle things (the start of the flower, i am SOOOOO technical!) so am jumping for joy! Lets hope I get a glut of sweetcorn – that is one I could like! Cat x