[Phoenix]

Thanks to John i think (soz if its not cant remember who told me now) i have 114 sweetcorn plants and they all have 2/3 sweetcorns each the problem i have is im not going to be able to eat a minimum of 114 sweetcorns b4 the go off... is there away to store them? Could i dip them in boiling water, then straight into cold water and shove them in the freezer? would they keep fresh?? thanks in advance to whoever reply's

O and another note, runnerbeans and peas r fab this yr!!

[Jake]

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Blimey, 250+ corn cobs!!! Perhaps you should make it into ethanol and sell it to the states. You'd be rich.lol

You could also buy a pig to fatten.

Is pop corn any different to normal corn?

I don't know what i'd do with all those cobs.

[Heather_S]

You can blanch the corn on the cob and cut the kernals off to store in the freezer. Do you have a garden mulcher/shredder machine? You could chuck the cobs into that to chop up the leftover cobs for the compost... Alternatively there's Corn Cob Jelly. Never tried it but it apparently works... something about boiling corn cobs (I guess there's pectin in it naturally?).

I think popcorn is different. You can buy popcorn varieties specifically and you need to dry and "cure" it carefully from what I've read (I love popcorn and I was considering growing the "strawberry popcorn" variety that organic catalogue sells).

[Heather_S]

corn cob jelly recipe Liquid fruit pectin would be Certo here in the UK, found in with other baking ingredients. 3fl oz is about 88ml

[milkman]

I'm growing strawberry popcorn this year.  Grew it for the first time last year.  Left the cobs to mature on the plants into the autumn then dug up the entire plants and moved them into the greenhouse when the weather turned a a bit damp.  When things started showing signs of going mouldy (I will probably try and miss out the mouldy stage this year!) removed the cobs from the plants, removed the husks and continued drying them in the airing cupboard.  Once reasonably dry stored them just in a kitchen cupboard.  

Made lovely white popcorn coating the kernels in a dash of oil in a saucepan and heating the mixture till they all went pop!

Not sure if you could make popcorn out of the usual sweetcorn varieties - it could be worth a try, especially if you are growing enough sweetcorn to feed the entire population of Ystradgynlais     We sell popping popcorn in our shop which looks remarkably like sweetcorn seeds.

[Phoenix]

my lil guinea pigs will eat all the cobs lol i may just set up a stall nxt yr in ystrad market and sell all my veg and "sweetcorns" lol i wont have to work lol thanks for the ideas guys