Sweetcorn - MERGED

katskorner

angelavdavis wrote:

If you are short of space, try growing mini-pop small sweetcorns. They are so expensive in the shops but really easy to grow.

I also grew these last year and they ended up almost as big as the supersweet! I still have some in the freezer frozen in their husks.

Cazzdevil

Thanks for the tips everyone

toblerone_2

my kids grow em for best results put em in a block fairly close together exact gap is on seed pack when the corns start to come on use a paint brush and gently use it over the tassles that come out of them to help pollination.good luck....oh sunny site.

it'smeinit

I grew them last year. I'm a complete novis, I just put them in a very big plastic pot and they grew fine. Some I picked to early, but others were wonderful and very sweet. If I can grow them anyone can! It spured me on and this year I am going the whole hog and have just prepared a veg plot at the bottom of my garden.

LJM

just watched grow your own she had a lovely crop of sweetcorn and squashs she grew them together they looked really tasty,where and when do you buy seed/plants and when do you grow them (im a newbie sorry)

Kazonline

Another growing newbie here.... Can they be grown in grow bags?
Kaz

richyrich7

Kazonline wrote:

Another growing newbie here.... Can they be grown in grow bags?
Kaz

You might get away with it, 3 to a bag but they get tall and will blow over easily, will need extra feed and lots of water. Don't think it would be that cost effective to be honest, Do you have a garden to plant them in ? they would grow a lot better.

Lord_Gardener

Put them in at the north end (to reduce shaddowing of other plants) of your veg patch in blocks (for pollination). Worth putting in support canes when planting out and remeber to water and feed for best cropping!

knithappens

i put some seed in a windowsill propagator, a week ago and already they are between an inch and an inch and a half long.

when do i put them into bigger pots, and when will they be able to go outside.

Also can i plant them in pots, rather than straight into the ground. Any advice will be great this is the first year i have ever grown them, the kids are so excited that they have grown so fast.

Tam_Lin

We sowed ours in individual peat pots in a tray and covered the lot with clingfilm to aid germination. We planted them out in the little pots yesterday after about 3 weeks; they are about 3 inches tall, I'd estimate. We put 16 of them in the ground in a 4x4 block to add pollination, and we laid torn comfrey leaves inbetween them in the hope that the nutrients will wash down into the soil. I don't know if you can grow them to full size in pots; they're fairly monstrous when they're older. If you do try it, you'd need pretty large pots to support such a tall thick structure.