[ytyynycefn]

Don't know if it's any help for next season, but I grabbed a handful of the polleny stuff and shoved a bit in the gap at each point where the leaves meet the stem on each plant (I don't get out much   ); each plant produced a couple of usable cobs which weren't gappy at all.  I only had about 20 plants, though.

Actually, I don't even know if that's good or not   :oops:  but I was impressed!  You can tell I'm new, can't you...

Mel

[Zak the Rabbit]

Sounds good to me, just another form of assisted pollination.

Shouldn't think you'd need to assist your plants Mel, in the Rhonnda, lovelly soil there im told. Used to be an allotment spot on Radio 2 from a chap there




Martin

[ytyynycefn]

The soil is lovely.  really rich and black, holds water well, but drains well too, if that makes sense.  The radio 2 plot is just a couple of miles away.

mel

[hermon]

thanks milkman!

[milkman]

my pleasure hermon!
I space my sweetcorn plants evenly across my 4ft beds in a block 4 plants wide by usually 4 to 6 along the bed depending on how many plants I've ended up with.

[Judymac]

Wish my sweetcorn was ok...the rain became a gale, and the sweetcorn and beans have been destroyed...sob  :cry:

Still I must be positive, somehow the tomatoes and runner beans and all the brassicas survived the hideous wind. There is always next year  

Enjoy your sweetcorn, make some relish and have a good time on the lottie or pottie  

Judy