[realfood]

Swift and Lark are tender sweets, ie both sweet and tender kernels, and are the ones I grow for Scotland. Swift is my first choice as it is early and produces well, even in poor years. Mirai is another very good one.

[adri123]

Does all the negative comment regarding getting a decent crop of sweetcorn in the uk also apply to polytunnels ?

TIA

Adri

[Yorkie]

Well the 'climate' is warmer, but the drawbacks of polytunnels are that it's harder to plant them in blocks (as opposed to rows), and they are wind pollinated - so you'd need to do the pollination by hand.

[adri123]

I can see the determination NOT being there for hand pollination....bye bye sweetcorn...

[JayG]

Given that it's usually wind-pollinated, sweet corn is probably one of the easiest crops to help pollinate by hand indoors (as long as you're prepared to go to the trouble of giving the male flowers a shake to release the pollen when the female silks have started to show.)

[Mark's Sussex Allotment]

I went with Swift..... thanks for all the tips.