Allotment Gardening Advice Help Chat
Growing => Grow Your Own => Topic started by: doug hutch on July 26, 2009, 13:38
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hi
why does one block of sweetcorn have about two cobs per plant
yet another block have none both were planted at the same time
there are about forty plants in each sixteen inches apart at oppisite
ends of the allotment
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Not really sure why if they're both the same variety. Not all varieties tend to make 2nd cobs. And 16" apart is pretty far; we go for about 4-6" apart. And heavy on the chicken poo for higher nitrogen.
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18" is the recommended spacing on the packets over here Trill. That how mine are planted.
I can offer no explanation either if it's the same variety planted at the same time, other than "the answer lies in the soil"!
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Or is one end more shaded than the other - this has made a massive difference to my sweetcorn plants.
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No idea about the orinignal question but while we are onthe sweetcorn topic .... will the pesky earwigs I have spotted be eating my sweetcorn? If so, what do I do?? To stop them that is... wasn't planning on dropping them off a napkin and a pat of butter to enhance their dining.
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I was going to start a new thread, but it seemed daft weing as there was this one... so I'm hijacking instead! :lol:
I think the answer has alread been given earlier, but my sweetcorn was late going into the ground and is currently pitiful compared to my neighbours... what can I do to give it a boost?
Chicken pellets?
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I think a liquid feed qould give quicker results now scabs, as the sweetcorn is probably just about to flower (mine is flowering now but you're further north so I am guessing a bit here!!).
How about tomorite or comfrey tea?
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Ok, liquid feed it is.
No chance of flowering right now, they're tiny! :(
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Anyone know about my earwigs??
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Since you know you are hijacking a thread why not do the proper thing and start a new topic.
Someone asked a question, oddly not about earwigs and sweetcorn but wht they may have had a difference and therefore I suspect what actions they can take the next time.
Wonder if we will hear from them again?
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I would remind members of part of the site policies:
"There is widespread feeling that this is the friendliest forum around and the Moderating Team feels very strongly about keeping it that way. Try smiling when you type your reply ... no matter that you may disagree with an earlier post - doing so with a smile always helps. Deliberately disrupting topics, unfriendliness or bad manners to others has no place here. If you disagree with a subject challenge the idea, do not attack the poster ! "
There is no need for rudeness or unfriendliness to any other poster, and if there are real problems with threads then please use the Report to Moderator button.
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I would remind members of part of the site policies:
"There is widespread feeling that this is the friendliest forum around and the Moderating Team feels very strongly about keeping it that way. Try smiling when you type your reply ... no matter that you may disagree with an earlier post - doing so with a smile always helps. Deliberately disrupting topics, unfriendliness or bad manners to others has no place here. If you disagree with a subject challenge the idea, do not attack the poster ! "
There is no need for rudeness or unfriendliness to any other poster, and if there are real problems with threads then please use the Report to Moderator button.
Hi Yorkie,
Is it considered rude or bad manners to ask another question in the middle of the thread or "hijack"so to speak ?
Thanks
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Hi Yorkie,
Is it considered rude or bad manners to ask another question in the middle of the thread or "hijack"so to speak ?
Thanks
heh, now you have the conundrum "was it rude to ask that question?" "could it be considered as hijacking?" "will yorkie shout at me?"
it's a hard life huh? ;)
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Many threads on this site go off topic for a while and then come back.
To be sarcastic to another member is not acceptable - particularly (though not only) when they are a new member.
By the way, if you have a problem with a moderator's comment you should not take that up on the open forum but again should use the report to moderator button or PM Aunt Sally.
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Many threads on this site go off topic for a while and then come back.
In all fairness .. some just wander off the plot completely ;)
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Many threads on this site go off topic for a while and then come back.
In all fairness .. some just wander off the plot completely ;)
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So that's where the phrase 'losing the plot' comes from :lol:
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Many threads on this site go off topic for a while and then come back.
In all fairness .. some just wander off the plot completely ;)
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It's what makes these forums the most successful veg gardening forums in the world (probably). If any member has a problem with this please send me a complaint written on a £10 note ;)
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You need to upgrade your wood aunty!, nowadays complaints should be submitted on the back of a £50 note .... no more than 10 words per note ;)
These forums aren't perfect, but they get by as well as most of life when it's left to sensibility ;)
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when it's left to sensibility
but according to Austen you need the SENSE to go with it, and sometimes that's lacking :lol: :tongue2: :wacko:
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ohhh, now that IS a challenge .... do I get a handicap advantage for being blonde? O_o
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You need to upgrade your wood aunty!, nowadays complaints should be submitted on the back of a £50 note .... no more than 10 words per note ;)
These forums aren't perfect, but they get by as well as most of life when it's left to sensibility ;)
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ohhh, now that IS a challenge .... do I get a handicap for being blonde? O_o
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::) I've seen your photo Yabba - you is mousy not blonde ::) :lol:
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::) I've seen your photo Yabba - you is mousy not blonde ::) :lol:
heh, that's the first time I've ever been compared to a mouse ;)
note to self : wash hair, in a vain manner, before next set of incriminating pictures get uploaded :tongue2:
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oo er - sorry if I upset anyone with the earwig question. I just thought it made sense to ask on the thread I was Reading about sweetcorn as that is how conversation works but maybe forums are different.
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It didn't upset me and none of the other forum mods said anything about it either, so don't worry.
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I like reading about the same thing in one thread and I don't mind if people want to ask other questions in a topic I started (not that I start many because most of my questions are answered in the questions others ask) :D
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oo er - sorry if I upset anyone with the earwig question. I just thought it made sense to ask on the thread I was Reading about sweetcorn as that is how conversation works but maybe forums are different.
I don't think you have too much to worry about, I am more concerned about teh local rat population stripping the plants to be honest as I ahven't had time to net them yet!
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Similar thing going on here, the strange thing though is that in one block of the same variety and conditions (none shaded etc), the tallest is about 5 and a half feet, the majority are 4/5 feet.
Then there are a half dozen or so that are tiny, 2ft at most, these ones seem to have 3+ stems, cobs/tassles but no male flower and are randomly spaced throughout the block ???
All interesting stuff, these ones are making last yrs crop seem really boring 8)
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oo er - sorry if I upset anyone with the earwig question. I just thought it made sense to ask on the thread I was Reading about sweetcorn as that is how conversation works but maybe forums are different.
I think it was me that did the upsetting, matey. Apologies for the hijack, I really didn't think it was a problem. :blush:
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I really didn't think it was a problem. :blush:
It wasn't.
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As the original posters question had been answered with a few possible causes then adding a few more queries on the same subject seems sensible.
Better to have three sweetcorn related questions in a single thread about sweetcorn than having three separate threads surely?