[Angelathers]

After chitting and planting sweetcorn and feeling quite pleased that the plants looked really healthy,horrors!! this morning as I was putting them out to harden off I realised my delightful cat has eaten the leaves. There does not seem to be any damage to the heart of the plants. Will these plants survive or should I start again.

[DD.]

As the growing centre's still there, they should be OK.

[Angelathers]

Thanks for the super quick reply really put my mind at rest 

[catweazle]

my cat did the same last year, they pulled through and i had a bumper crop!

[Angelathers]

Thanks for that information catweazle, my hubby did say that maybe this sweetcorn would be the best ever.

[VegGirl7]

one of my cats has done the same in the past (as well as lots of other seedlings - they are evil     ) and it depends on the extent of the damage

you can usually tell within a few days which will be okay 

[Angelathers]

Thanks for reply VegGirl7. Big yes! they are evil just a really good job Molly (the evil cat) is so darn cute. Fingers crossed on sweetcorn.

[Yana]

My daughter has been growing a tray of (what she calls) 'cat grass'. I asked her why she was growing sweetcorn as it looks so similar. Maybe that is why cats like the sweetcorn plants?

[DD.]

Sweetcorn is a member of the grass family, so it's not suprising!

For those who don't know, this is why cats eat grass:

http://www.care2.com/greenliving/why-do-cats-eat-grass.html

[Swing Swang]

The growing tips of sweetcorn are lovely and sweet for humans too - I've often wondered why the 'juice bars' that sprang up a few years ago didn't use corn instead of the other grass that they seemed to have growing away on the counter