Maz, if you wait until the leaves of the plant turn yellow, you will be very disappointed with the flavour and eating quality of the sweetcorn. Just pull back the husk at the top to look at the kernels. It will be obvious when they are ready, they will be a lovely yellow, and full of milky liquid.
My OH and I had some for lunch yesterday, cooked in the microwave for 5 minutes for three large cobs.
Not sure what to do with mine and when to harvest - I tried the mini pop this year in a metre by half metre planter with peas and dwarf french beans growing up them, plus one courgette and one squash plant that the slugs ate. Plus a lemon thyme which I grow with everything as it seems to have a beneficial effect on all plants, but I think, in spite of copper tape, and that the slugs wont eat the thyme, they use it as a means to reach the other plants.What would you advise?
jane a - Me thinks you are trying to grow far to much in too small an area for plants which need more room to grow. My advise is not to be so adventurious next yr.
oh my word - yes that is good advice - many thanks to you both - I have only really tried veg apart from carrots, lettuce, peas and spring onions the last couple of years so I am a complete amateur - this really helps!!
Some sweet corn do have white kernels. Such as Sugar Pearl, Stowells, Mirai 421W, Silver Queen and Country Gentleman but I have never seen them for sale.
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My OH and I had some for lunch yesterday, cooked in the microwave for 5 minutes for three large cobs.
i have had the badgers eat any rip sweet corn, and will have the rest before i can pick it, can i ripen cobs off the plant.
Sadly no - they need to be on the plant to ripen. Is it worth getting an electric fence?
http://www.electricfencing.co.uk/badgers.asp
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Mine were unexciting this year, Lark seeds. Lack of sun I guess.
Not sure what to do with mine and when to harvest - I tried the mini pop this year in a metre by half metre planter with peas and dwarf french beans growing up them, plus one courgette and one squash plant that the slugs ate. Plus a lemon thyme which I grow with everything as it seems to have a beneficial effect on all plants, but I think, in spite of copper tape, and that the slugs wont eat the thyme, they use it as a means to reach the other plants.What would you advise?
jane a - Me thinks you are trying to grow far to much in too small an area for plants which need more room to grow. My advise is not to be so adventurious next yr.
I agree with Zoomer - my courgette plants each have a metre by a metre raised bed to themselves.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
oh my word - yes that is good advice - many thanks to you both - I have only really tried veg apart from carrots, lettuce, peas and spring onions the last couple of years so I am a complete amateur - this really helps!!
Some sweet corn do have white kernels. Such as Sugar Pearl, Stowells, Mirai 421W, Silver Queen and Country Gentleman but I have never seen them for sale.
Jane, try watching Gardener's World http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006mw1h/episodes/guide on BBC 2 on Friday evenings
and Beechgrove http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00721bz/episodes/guide which is on BBC 2 around 8am on Sundays
you'll soon get the idea
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.