[RookieJim]

I've got these three sweetcorn plants right beside my shed on the new plot. It's also beside what looks like a make-shift compost pile with a blackberry bush behind it.

So what should I do with these? Leave them be, transplant or dig them up and add to the compost heap?

Thanks
Jim

[DD.]

If no cobs are showing on them now, (photo is too small to see), they won't make any. If that's the case - compost!

[RookieJim]

Thanks DD.

With regards to the picture, I'm having a real problem uploading to the site. Every pic is too large and when i re-size using the tool recommended on here they still show as too large or very small. It always takes me 3 or 4 attempts to upload.

I'm sure it's user error though   

[Yorkie]

It sounds as though you have seen the piccie guidance thread, but in case you haven't, here it is:
http://chat.allotment-garden.org/index.php?topic=19476.0

I always use photobucket as it avoids all resizing images.  Just set its default to the pixel size advised in the thread when you start.

[Annen]

Compost heap I would've thought, unless it is so mild they will overwinter.

I find cropping the edges of my pictures seems to work in making them small enough.

[Kleftiwallah]

'Tis a shame you only have the three.  I find sweetcorn stems placed 90 degrees to one another makes an ideal base for a new compost heap.

Cheers,   Tony.

[Robert_S]

I have sweetcorn plants in a couple of my beds. I heard that they are good for overwintering insects...any mileage in that? Also, I had it in my head that they would be a kind of lazy "green" manure...?

Any thoughts?

[JayG]

I'm still hoping that the dozen cobs I've still got will magically mature and ripen in the Indian summer being hinted at for next week! 

Not sure about overwintering insects - I'm assuming you regard that as a positive but it probably depends which insects you have (some people have trouble with earwigs in the cobs!)
Mine will go on the compost heap eventually - well chopped up as the stems are quite fibrous and the cobs take forever to rot.

As for green manure, I believe the idea is to "lock up" nutrients in the soil over winter which are then released when it is dug in. Sweetcorn will be dying off soon if it hasn't already, so can only lock up nutrients absorbed during the summer.