Side shoots on Sweetcorn

[Lady of the Land]

Can anyone help with regards to the side shoots on sweetcorn, should they be left alone or removed. Is the harvest increased or decreased by removing or leaving side shoots.

Thankyou

[Lady of the Land]

[tim]

Side shoots

Compared with standard corn, sweet corn has a stronger tendency to produce side shoots, which in the past were usually removed. Tests have shown that there is no difference between allotments with and without removal of the side shoots. Thus, this measure is superfluous and can´t be recommended.

[ptennisnet]

Following advice received from this forum (thanks folks!), we left the side shoots on and earthed them up last year and it seemed to work...