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Sweetcorn - The boys are ready - where are the girls?

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  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    Warm weather and lots of water ... that'll keep them happy  B)

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • Pete.8Pete.8 Posts: 11,340
    Warm weather and lots of water ... that'll keep them happy  B)
    I wish I was so easily satisfied :)
    Thanks Dove

    Billericay - Essex

    Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit.
    Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.
  • Crista1Crista1 Posts: 14
    Ours are really tall now and possibly 3 cobs on some of them, I started them off in the greenhouse and carefully planted out in may, some are 7ft tall. 
  • Pete.8Pete.8 Posts: 11,340
    That is tall! - mine are bout 5ft, but there are cobs everywhere now
    I'll be on a sweetcorn and tomato diet for most of august I reckon

    Billericay - Essex

    Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit.
    Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.
  • purplerallimpurplerallim Posts: 5,287
    😡 There are mine two foot tall. So behind.
  • Pete.8Pete.8 Posts: 11,340
    😡 There are mine two foot tall. So behind.
    But you'll be just starting to enjoy yours when we've finished ours :)

    Billericay - Essex

    Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit.
    Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.
  • purplerallimpurplerallim Posts: 5,287
    🙄 hopefully
  • My sweetcorn look very similar to yours. The cobs will come. I grew them last year, had a marvellous crop, 4 cobs per stem,  except the nibs were not properly developed on any of the cobs. I put this down to buying the plants too late in the season so have grown them from seed this year, they are loving the heat.

    There is nothing like chewing on a freshly picked, warm, raw cob, sitting in the garden and patting yourself on the back for being so clever as to grow such a delicious veg.

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