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Thinking of buying

IvyhouseIvyhouse Posts: 111
in Fruit & veg

Although it's still too wet to walk on the plot, there are standing puddled, I browsed the shelves in Wilco this morning and am looking at ...

...carrot Paris Market, sweetcorn Swift, parsnips Student and Gladiator, runner Prizewinner and dwarf french Tendercrop. Buy 3 and get the cheapest free offer on at the moment.

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  • IvyhouseIvyhouse Posts: 111

    Apart from Swift which was not good last year they are all new to me. I put the failure of my sweetcorn down to a grey and cloudy summer here in the East. Any thoughts on these from friends will be welcome

     

  • fidgetbonesfidgetbones Posts: 17,614

    I have had sweetcorn swift, two years running. One wet, one hot. Both years it did really well. It needs the sunniest position you can give it.

  • fidgetbonesfidgetbones Posts: 17,614

    I should add I use two packets and plant in a block, 7 rows of 10. The odd plant, or planted in a long line, will not pollinate well, because it is wind pollinated.

  • IvyhouseIvyhouse Posts: 111

    Thanks fidgetbones. I don't have room for more than a dozen plants but will put them in the sunniest corner. 

  • fidgetbonesfidgetbones Posts: 17,614

    Try and put them in a block, 3 x 4. I'm not confident so few will pollinate well. try tapping the plants when the male flowers open to disperse the pollen.

  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,123

    I find that sweetcorn needs loads of water when producing the cobs - even in the wet summer before last I had the sprinkler on the sweetcorn on dry days.  


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





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