Maybe Bridgey stands at the end of the row and blows hot air down the row twice a day. That would work.
Pesticides used at the end of the 2nd World War were used to maximise the amount of food that could be grown for a starving nation. The people took precedence over the wildlife. With hindsight DDT was wrong, and the current recommendation is to use as little pesticide as possible. No farmer spends money on unnecessary sprays.
The main pest I have on sweetcorn are squirrels, who stripped 60 cobs in an afternoon one year and carried them off through the woods. We found a trail of half eaten cobs.
It seems that because someone has a different way of growing and doing things from the main contributors to this forum they are to be insulted.
I think your remarks about hot air was completely uncalled for fidgetbones,i dont know what insults you are going to throw at me when i say that i too grow sweet corn in a row and have been doing so for many years with enough success to win me quite a few first prizes at local shows and i have never tapped them to make pollen fall.
This year i had a failure with my crop and i put that down to the fact that when we had a very dry spell i was away.
I grow mine in a straight row for the very good reason that i use them as a barrier against the leek moth attacking my leeks i plant my sweet corn straight across my plot then two rows of leeks then my runner bean row, never have any trouble with the dreaded leek moth.
I got that tip many years ago from an allotment holder in preston.
In this wonderful hobby of gardening and allotments there are many ways of doing the same thing and all views should be respected,so please remember that just because someone disagrees with you they are not automaticlly wrong.
Thanks for your reply Scroggins may we have many debates in the future.
Sewell Cooper who did many tests at a goverment research in kent way back in the forties and was also the author of the a.b.c of gardening books ,reversed his own advise in later life on sweet corn and stated that the planting of sweet corn in blocks dated back to the days of open pollinated varieties.
I think that you and i agree that there is no hard and fast rules in any aspect of gardening and that all views should be respected and debated over.
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Wasnt the rhs one of the bodies that recommended DDT as the new wonder spray.
Maybe Bridgey stands at the end of the row and blows hot air down the row twice a day.
That would work.
Pesticides used at the end of the 2nd World War were used to maximise the amount of food that could be grown for a starving nation. The people took precedence over the wildlife. With hindsight DDT was wrong, and the current recommendation is to use as little pesticide as possible. No farmer spends money on unnecessary sprays.
The main pest I have on sweetcorn are squirrels, who stripped 60 cobs in an afternoon one year and carried them off through the woods. We found a trail of half eaten cobs.
It seems that because someone has a different way of growing and doing things from the main contributors to this forum they are to be insulted.
I think your remarks about hot air was completely uncalled for fidgetbones,i dont know what insults you are going to throw at me when i say that i too grow sweet corn in a row and have been doing so for many years with enough success to win me quite a few first prizes at local shows and i have never tapped them to make pollen fall.
This year i had a failure with my crop and i put that down to the fact that when we had a very dry spell i was away.
I grow mine in a straight row for the very good reason that i use them as a barrier against the leek moth attacking my leeks i plant my sweet corn straight across my plot then two rows of leeks then my runner bean row, never have any trouble with the dreaded leek moth.
I got that tip many years ago from an allotment holder in preston.
In this wonderful hobby of gardening and allotments there are many ways of doing the same thing and all views should be respected,so please remember that just because someone disagrees with you they are not automaticlly wrong.
I didn't say they were wrong. I seemed to remember to OP said that blocks were wrong.
As I have never won a prize in a show, I bow to your superiority.
I take the view that everyone is entitled to their view.
Thanks for your reply Scroggins may we have many debates in the future.
Sewell Cooper who did many tests at a goverment research in kent way back in the forties and was also the author of the a.b.c of gardening books ,reversed his own advise in later life on sweet corn and stated that the planting of sweet corn in blocks dated back to the days of open pollinated varieties.
I think that you and i agree that there is no hard and fast rules in any aspect of gardening and that all views should be respected and debated over.