Stunted sweet corn

[George the Pigman]

For the first time after many years this year my sweet corn plants are only half the size I would expect. The cobs are OK but similarly smaller. I didn't grow dwarf varieties.
Anyone had this?

[George the Pigman]

[Paulh]

Yes, I didn't get around to sowing seeds this year so I bought plants from the garden centre. The label gives no variety, so I did wonder until the cobs grew a bit more whether I'd picked out mislabelled mini sweetcorn which were also on sale. I suspect it was the weather, unless there's a variety that has been bred to stay small.

Still, a better result than I had last year when the plants grew beautifully to full size but the cobs never set and ripened properly.

[George the Pigman]

Last year was a good one for sweetcorn. The main thing that helped was putting plastic pop bottles over the cobs when they were nearly ripe to stop marauding mice, rats, crows, magpies, pigeons from gobbling them up.