For some reason, we've never grown sweetcorn on the allotment. Until this year, that is. Several of our allotment neighbours produce fine crops year in, year out, so we though we'd give it a try on our new allotment.
As far as I can see, we followed the preparation and growing advice to the letter. The one obvious problem is that our block of corn is close to an apple tree, so the plants nearest the tree are a bit too shaded, but that only affects a few plants.
But rather to our chagrin, as everyone else is exclaiming over what a fantastic year it's going to be for corn, and showing off the swelling cobs, we have no corncobs at all. The plants are beautiful, tall, green, and strong. The male flowers are just coming out, ready to fertilise the non-existent cobs beneath. There's no sign of rot, fungus, insect pests, or anything like that. Just no corncobs on apparently healthy plants.
The seeds were bought from the normally-reliable Seeds of Italy, and are just labelled as sweet corn.
http://www.seedsofitaly.com/SWEETCORN_MAIS_BOX_UK_ONLY/p1834925_8313361.aspxIf anyone has any ideas, if only for getting it right next year, we'd be very grateful!