Allotment Gardening Advice Help Chat
Growing => Grow Your Own => Topic started by: DD. on October 06, 2007, 12:03
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Part of today's harvest.
Must dash - sugar turning to starch & all that. Freezer beckons...
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you should be proud of the mate first class :wink:
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Mmmmmmmm nice :tongue2:
We went to a Harvester last night and I had a side order of corn on the cob. It tasted of nothing. It was truly awful. Yours looks great and 100 times tastier.
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I bet their's weren't allotment to freezer in an hour. The ones for today's dinner are still on the plants, I'll get them just before we eat!
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I'm a bit jealous cos we have picked and eaten all ours.
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Oh DD they look lovely! Ours didn't come to much this year, we gave them to the chooks!!!!!
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I'm a bit jealous cos we have picked and eaten all ours.
I'm extremely jealous!!!!!! Rats and muntjac ate every single of of mine :cry: :cry:
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I'm a bit jealous cos we have picked and eaten all ours.
I'm extremely jealous!!!!!! Rats and muntjac ate every single of of mine :cry: :cry:
i never did :shock: ( mighta nicked some ya strawbs tho :wink: )
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I was a bit late getting mine in this year with one thing & another, & was a bit concerned that the cobs may not swell. Fingers crossed that the remaining 50 or so will make it.
Just had to force myself to eat two cobs that didn't pass my demanding quality control staff (me).
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I was a bit late getting mine in this year with one thing & another, & was a bit concerned that the cobs may not swell. Fingers crossed that the remaining 50 or so will make it.
Just had to force myself to eat two cobs that didn't pass my demanding quality control staff (me).
That's funny Digger, because the first time I tried sweetcorn 3 years ago, I got the packet cheap at 33p because they were late, and they wree the best ones I've ever had, even though I just made little holes and chucked the seed in!!!!
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Beautiful!
We also ate all ours. :(
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Just checked out Moles seeds - £2.60 for 50g, that's between 200 & 400 seed for a F1.
Know where I'm going next year & can go halves with a fellow plottie. That's £1.30 wheras I paid about £9 this year.
Moles Seeds (http://www.molesseeds.co.uk/index.html)
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I got into trouble with Mrs. Digger. I used the pressure cooker to blanch them, as it was the only thing big enough to accommodate the cobs. It didn't do it last time for some reason, anyway the inside ended up looking like this........
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No panic - remembered the old trick with boiling up rhubarb in it. Now looks like this.....
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Must fill it to the top next time!
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I plan to grow sweetcorn next year and will use the tip I saw on here about pop bottles on the cobs. ALL the allotment holders who grow them at my site have had theirs eaten by magpies.
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nice corn DD but I dont know what happened to the pan :?
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its limescale lolo i reckonya topped the water up as well lmao :lol:
I know limescale - it's summat outta the swetcorn wot reaacted wif the ali.
God - I'm talking in Munty now!
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Did I miss what variety they are DD. I grew sunrise which are just a memory now (except for the ones in the freezer) :D
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What big pictures :wink: :wink:
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Did I miss what variety they are DD. I grew sunrise which are just a memory now (except for the ones in the freezer) :D
They were called 'I wish I made a note of it'.
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Did I miss what variety they are DD. I grew sunrise which are just a memory now (except for the ones in the freezer) :D
They were called 'I wish I made a note of it'.
we grow lots of diferent looking ones like that :wink:
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Ah - just found it as I hit 'post'
Suttons 'Sundance'
Used to grow their 'Supersweet' - they were superb and better than these. Why is it the good seem to die young?
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Nice corn DD
I should have grown more, only got a couple left in the freezer :cry:
We live and learn (usually the hard way)
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Nice corn DD
I should have grown more, only got a couple left in the freezer :cry:
We live and learn (usually the hard way)
They don't last long do they? I'm fortunate in the fact that I don't have to worry about growing space, so now I'd never consider less than 100 plants. But you have to cut your suit according to the cloth.
No use planting all sweetcorn & getting no variety.
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there s a variety called something american indian type cant remember the name we used to grow it in tenn .it had a variety of colour seeds in it and they tasted absolutly gorgous so sweet and juicy .. if i get a chance to talk to my ex mom inlaw i wil try n get the name :)
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there s a variety called something american indian type cant remember the name we used to grow it in tenn .it had a variety of colour seeds in it and they tasted absolutly gorgous so sweet and juicy .. if i get a chance to talk to my ex mom inlaw i wil try n get the name :)
You want to talk to an ex-mum in law? :shock: :shock: :shock:
Chances are it's moved onto another F1 now.
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she was ok ,,,,, at long distances lol :lol:
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its seneca dancer its white n yellow , you can order the seed from johhnys seeds if you cant find it in the uk
http://www.johnnyseeds.com
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Those are superb sweetcorn, DD!
I sowed about 30 seeds in June (late, I know), and only 2 or 3 came out of those. Gilbert felt sorry for me and sowed some in pots and gave me to plant out a few weeks later (July). I got some corn, but they were not the best I've ever eaten - the cobs were mainly under developed, they were sweet, but could have been sweeter, and the last few times they've been extra tough. I've 2 more to harvest (will do so today), they feel fuller, but I won't be holding my breath. Still, I'm happy with what I got considering! Roll on 2008!
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Like the Sweetcorn DD they look great
Hmmm where's me seed catalogue???
I like sweetcorn
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i picked all mine off yesterday and chucked it all where 2-3 inches and not formed!
they where put in late in the first place and where plants from a garden center, none of the stuff plant wize i got from there was any good
nathan