Good year for corn

[Tee Gee]

I am having a good year for my sweetcorn (Tuxedo) averaging two large cobs per plant, usually it is one plus an under-developed one!

See here;

The bed;



The cobs; (the tiles are 6" wide)



Pumpkins, Sprouts & Chrysants are also doing well;









So are some late Calabrese & Cauli I put in;



I have started my winter digging in preparation for next year;



This bed is prepared for my Japanese Onions & Garlic;



I have also put some other pictures of my garden in 'The Gallery' for anyone who is interested!

[Tee Gee]

[saddad]

Our Chrysants were rather poor this year... but they can still produce blooms before the frosts..  :)

[Jayb]

All looks superb. Your sprouts are more forward than mine. I agree a good year for sweetcorn despite the lack of sunshine.

[shirlton]

Looks good TeeGee. Our chrysanths are really good this year. We are growing some maximus that you said were ok and we already have sprouts on them.

[Tee Gee]

Decided to pick some corn today before it becaome too 'starchy'

Removed the largest one from each plant in the hope that those remaining plump up a bit more!

This is todays harvest - 50 cobs;

[SteveJ]

Looking great Tee Gee, mine still need another week ro so.

How do you store them? I've tried freezing with or without blanching first but results are never that good.

Steve

[Tee Gee]

We just freeze them without blanching them and I agree with you they are not as nice cooked from fresh.

We have blanched them in the past, and I think this makes things worse as it increases the water content (dilution)

Meaning when you thaw them then warm them up they can be quite soggy.

Where I think the general public (you & me) suffer is our freezers are not fast enough whereas with commercial freezing this is virtually instant meaning a reduced water content!

So we have to make do with what we have I'm afraid :'(

[GRACELAND]

 :D

We just freeze them without blanching

tastes ok  :D

[thifasmom]

Meaning when you thaw them then warm them up they can be quite soggy.

Where I think the general public (you & me) suffer is our freezers are not fast enough whereas with commercial freezing this is virtually instant meaning a reduced water content!

So we have to make do with what we have I'm afraid :'(

when i use my (unblanched) sweetcorn from frozen i do not thaw before reheating, as i also found this caused them to go soggy. i have found that if i take the frozen cobs and put into a pot of cold tap water then put the lot on the fire, when the water starts to boil i give it a couple more minutes before removing from the heat and the water, resulting in the cob being cooked through and still retaining some crunch.

[GRACELAND]

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when i use my (unblanched) sweetcorn from frozen i do not thaw before reheating, as i also found this caused them to go soggy. i have found that if i take the frozen cobs and put into a pot of cold tap water then put the lot on the fire, when the water starts to boil i give it a couple more minutes before removing from the heat and the water, resulting in the cob being cooked through and still retaining some crunch.
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I agree with this above thats how we do it  Works Fine !!  ;)

[Tee Gee]

Yup!! I agree with that.....cook from frozen!

[BarriedaleNick]

Puts my corn to shame Tee Gee!
Have you grown Tuxedo before?
Great Pics too. ;D

[Tee Gee]

Have you grown Tuxedo before?

Yes many times!

In the past few years I have tended to grow varieties such as; Tuxedo, Kelvedon Glory, Sweet Nugget, & Tasty Gold.

Usually I grew three varieties and there was always one variety I preferred to the others, but never new wich one, simply because;- I invariably mixed them up en-route home from the alloment :-[

So last year I made an effort to find out which one that was and established it was Tuxedo.

Mark you!  the others are equally as good but I thought Tuxedo had the edge on the others.

[Jokerman]

I've had my best sweetcorn year, grew Marshalls Supersweet variety, were gorgeous, matured about a month ago, much ealier than everyone elses on the plots.

Will def be using again... and the sweetest corn I've had. Says on the packet that so sweet you can try raw.... did try it, but better cooked!!!!    ;D

[1066]

great pictures TeeGee, and delicious sweetcorn !

But looking at your pics - I have soil eny  ;)

[daxzen]

my first time - used mainstay and the results are great - delicious

i had to put a fence up around them to deter the badgers though - my neighbour has had all his crop eaten and th plants shredded

definitly doing it again next year - will set up a bed for the three sisters I think

dax

[chriscross1966]

One thought from my assorted "Sisters" experiments this year is that the corn will have to be spaced a bit more (or planted in clumps of four to a station) and they all want a lot of water.... I might give it another go next year but not unless I can sort out some serious autowatering for that patch.... most htings in the ground through mulch plastic don't really need watering except if we get a completely dry week but the places where I was  doing beans/maize/courgetts/squash always seemed to be screaming for water if we went four days without rain.....

chrisc

[lewic]

Wow your plot is soo tidy. The Japanese Onion & Garlic bed looks more like apple crumble topping than soil!

My corn grew really well (despite accidentally ripping most of their roots off when I planted them) and survived being blown flat by the wind. Now are staked and have a plastic windshield. Not sure the badgers are going to be put off though.. am going to try gaffer-taping plastic bottles over the corn and painting the plants with a mixture of glycerine and chilli powder (tip from an old timer!)

[reddyreddy]

Tee gee, in the photo of your brassicas the net only appears to go over the middle section, what;s that about and why haven't they been gobbled up by cabbage whit ???e like mine were?!