Allotment Gardening Advice Help Chat
Growing => Grow Your Own => Topic started by: Callie on August 19, 2009, 21:03
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This is our first year of doing this growing stuff :D
So you can imagine our delight at our first sweetcorn :)
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Well done Callie, hope it didn't stay on the plate long - needs eating within minutes of picking!!
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mmmmm that looks scrummy. Mine aren't big enough to pick yet, I can't wait. If they are as good as that Callie i'll be very happy indeed... :D
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I eat mine raw, straight from the plant, they don't need cooking and are really juicy and sweet that way.
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I'm jealous, been trying for a couple of years without success. Will try again next year.
Me & my brother use to go & knick some from the corn field when we were kids & cook them on the BBQ still in the husk. It steams them & you still get a bit of that bbq taste where the husk is charred.
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That probably wasn't sweetcorn in those days, Remy, more like maize grown for cattle feed & much tougher.
Don't ask how I know.
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Surely DD but still tasted good as far as I can remember ;)
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Alot of stuff we ate as kids tasted good!! I can remember eating blackberries taken from a neighbours garden fence. Sometimes we found maggots in them but it didn't put us off. We would throw the maggotty ones away and continue eating them. I bet if I ate them today I wouldn't think they were so nice.
Sometimes stealing things like this as children makes them taste better!! :tongue2:
Jazz
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I've never thought of growing sweetcorn, is it difficult?
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This is my first time having an allotment and growing veg, and I found it very easy. Just planted in the seeds some time back in a 5 by 4 block arrangement, and let them do what they are supposed to do. I did nothing apart from watering during the dry spell, a bit of weeding and a few weeks ago put a fence around them to stop badgers that had previously attacked corn on neighbouring plots in the past apparently.
Each plant has several cobs on then and for the last week we have been munching through corn and freezing some, giving them to friends.
This is certainly a veg I will do again - not only is it a brilliant tasting veg anyhow, picked fresh it is even better of course and it is SO cheap too - given a small cob can cost up to £1 in a shop, I think I paid about £1.50 for the seeds!!!
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Doesn't seem to be difficult Gemma , I'm a complete novice at this and I managed to grow some ... Can't beat the flavour of freshly picked corn on the cob.
Give it ago next year , I know I'll be growing some more
Keep smilin'
Sal
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They look great. My question is I have grown them also for the first time this year..ever and they are at the stage where they have got tussles on the top. My problem is Iam going away in 3 weeks for 3 weeks. Am I going to miss them or do you think they will have produced the corn within the next 3 weeks. I will be gutted if I am not here to eat them after looking after them :(
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I've never thought of growing sweetcorn, is it difficult?
Once you have tasted your own you will never want to buy any again!
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You know I think i'm going to give them a go next year! It look's amazing, and also cheap £1 for corn on cob v's £1.50 for seed's, it's a no brainer really!
Mmmm, I keep looking at the piccy and I could just eat that now!!
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Agree - this looks like a must for next year!!
What varieties have folks had good success with then?
Phill
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Well I don't know... look at them kernels: they're not all lined up in straight lines - some of the are higgledypiggledy :ohmy:
Seriously though, it looks great, and corn is one of the veg I aim to try next year
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sweetcorn is one veg you really can taste the difference between home-grown and shop-bought IMHO as is beetroot - enjoy :D oh and tomatoes and potatoes, carrots :lol:
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That looks amazing, well done. Mine tasted delicious but the corn didn't go all the way to the end of the cob. Still have some that aren't ready yet so fingers crossed they are as good as yours.
To anyone considering growing sweetcorn, do it! It looks great when it is growing and it tastes great too!
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How tall does it grow? Does it need a sheltered spot/support?
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Callie, that looks great. Seeing as you're just 'up the road' from us, I had to go and have a peek at mine today, and they're not quite ready yet. :(
Moi, jealous.... :mad: :D
gemma_25... Size depends on the variety/growing conditions etc.,. (mine are over 5ft tall)
You can always give 'em some extra support with canes if you're very exposed to wind. Don't forget, they need to be planted out in a block to aid pollination.(18" apart) ;)
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Hmmmm I probably don't have the room for them :-( Which is a shame!
All I want for Christmas is an allotment ha ha!
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Hmmmm I probably don't have the room for them :-( Which is a shame!
All I want for Christmas is an allotment ha ha!
I'm sure you can find somewhere to put 'em. I've seen them grown in borders in small gardens, and I know some members on here, have them growing in very confined spaces... They just might need a little help in pollinating that's all! ;)
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I've moved my allegiance from Swift to Lark this year. The unexpected hot weather in april messed up germination, a lot of seeds went to mush, and new shoots frazzled in an unheated greenhouse. Normally I'd expect a 90% germination rate, this year 50%, and neighbours had similar problems.
Gemma - the minimum I'd plant is 16 in a 4 x 4 block about 15 inch spacing, but however many you plant, you'll wish you'd done more.
The best ever veg to taste from plot to plate in 10 mins.
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Mine aren't ready yet...I'm barbecuing tomorrow aswell, so I've had to buy some.. :(
I can't wait to try them now..
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Callie, Do you know when you sowed/planted them out? I'm sure my first batch were in the ground about the 3rd week of May?
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Hi not sure if anyone saw my post a few days ago, re the size of them now.
"My question is I have grown them also for the first time this year..ever and they are at the stage where they have got tussles on the top. My problem is I am going away in 3 weeks for 3 weeks. Am I going to miss them or do you think they will have produced the corn within the next 3 weeks. I will be gutted if I am not here to eat them after looking after "
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I should think that unless something/one comes along and 'tastes' them for you they will still be waiting for you when you're back :)