as you can see from the picture, our sweetcorn are growing well ;D
question is, there are about 4 small 'cobs' on the bottom of the plant, obviously they won't grow full size, do I leave them on or take off and use as baby corn now ?
never had so many before ???
Hi Manicscousers,
Your sweetcorn look well. More advanced than ours.
(http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y289/pigbun/DSC00164.jpg)
When do we know when they are ripe enough to pick?
Sorry we are just learners too so can't answer your question but we'd like to know too.
the silky bits go dark brown, when that happens, you peel back a bit of the outside, if the corn is lovely and gold, just pop one bit with your nail, if the liquid is creamy, they're ready, then you can enjoy them ;D
the outside ones are always behind those under cover, a bit of warm weather and sunshine would help, too ;D
Dark brown& dry. If you peel back & leve them, the Earwigs will get in!
Bottom ones? Mostly, the advice is leave them be.
thanks, tim, I'll leave them for now ;D
I am ever one to experiment.
Why not pull the small ones off a couple of the plants and record what happens, we would be all interested to know.
By the way are they in a polytunnel, they are very advanced?
I'd take them off so that those that are left get all of the goodness and grow to full size. Better to have less good ones than lots that are not so good.
yes, been in the poly since march, I've got 12 plants so will take the small bottom ones off a couple tomorrow and see if it does anything either way :)
Leave the bottom ones as they are. They won't form into full cobs, but you should still get a tidy amount of kernals from them.