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Does anyone know what variety's are grown for baby sweetcorn ? and if they can be grown in the UK ?

Commercial growers must grow a special kind that produces loads of cobs ? Most normal varieties will only produce 4 or 5 cobs max, surely this wouldn't be viable.

we grow "minipops" F1. Should be ready to start cropping in about a week. Looks to be just as good as last year - people seem to be having trouble with normal sweetcorn this year. We love it

How many plants do you grow normally ? and whats the yield like ?

we grow a packet, about 50 plants. Germination was about 100%. We were getting maybe up to 8 (?) per plant, certainly a lot more than it said on the packet. Might not seem a lot, but the first ones were long and thin , much bigger than for Tescos (and just as tender). You have to pick them smaller as the season goes on.

f I didn't grow any one year, i'd get shot. They're a highlight of the year when they start

Thanks,

Just so i have all the info ready for next year, what spacing between plants do you need (the same as normal sweetcorn ?) - i need to work out where to grow them. I assume they must be kept away form other sweetcorn plants.

Also, did you sow direct of start off in tubes ?

for all the info about keeeping them away from other corn, there's a post from Jeannine that explains it all, but yes. We don't grow any other corn, and no-one nearby grows corn so we're pretty safe

I think you can plant closer than for normal corn. We planted about 9in apart, and that looks about right, now. Any closer and i'd have trouble picking them

I sow in plastic cups rather than tubes. There are also posts about how if they are kept in the pots too long (too early sowing, cold weather late on delaying planting), then they can easily get a check in growth when you do plant them (if you see what I mean). think we got it right, but don't ask when I sowed them or planted them out, anyway next year will be completely different (please God)

my minipops dont appear to be croping yet :(

I stand to be corrected, but surely you can stop the minipop corn interfering with other corn by removing the male flower spikes when they appear ??

You don't need to plant this type of sweet corn in blocks as it isn't pollinated.

My understanding is that super sweet varieties need to be separated from traditional sweet corn varieties.

Ours has just started yesterday...
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yes Lesley! I'd just worked that out, thinking about thepollination and stuff. Looks nice all together though, with the wind rustling the leaves, like Field of Dreams, and there's usually a frog or two lurking about inside