Reply to Mrs Matthews: Great results for your first time! My sweetcorn is also growing well this year, and like you it does look as if many of the plants are carrying two or three developing cobs.
Can't wait until they're rip later in August or early September!
I have grown sweetcord for the first tiem this year!!!! They are doing very well and all looks good , I have peeled back some of the leaves to reveal the cob, they look very pale, white even, do I leave them longer to go yellow??
Andrea: It depends what variety you are growing. Some sweetcorn are golden-yellow, but others produce very pale cream cobs.
I'm not sure in what part of the country you live either, or how early they were sown and planted, but from my experience growing sweetcorn in the Midlands I wouldn't expect sweetcorn cobs to be ready to harvest quite yet. I wouldn't expect my swetcorn to be ripe until later in August.
Firstly the tassels need to have turned brown. Then peel back the sheath from a cob and just push a nail into a cob to check for milky liquid to come out (not clear).
Hi, I have sweetcorn growing well in my garden & have just read about harvesting when the silks are brown & drying... I have a few cobs on my plants with brown shrivelled silks & had a peek in one. The cob is small & the corn is small & very pale in colour... does they require more time to grow... I am confused? They are Mr Fothergills sweetcorn (sparrow F1)
I have sweetcorn growing in large pots. but they dont yet have any cobs growing. what time of year are they supose to start? i have been giving them some of the tomato food
in 2010 i grew sweetcorn and each plant had 2 or more cobs. then one day the silky tassels just disappeared. the corn inside had not developed even though i planted in block. any ideas as to what happened? the previous year i tried to grow mini dop. they where large. both times the plants look healthy and were well watered and were grown in raised beds. i am hoping that this year i might actually succeed with some advice from someone out there.
Oh dear. It seems I may have made the same mistake that you made last year Adam. I have 5 plants within about 3 feet of each other. I have kept them well watered and they seem to be doing ok. How do you know when they are ready to harvest?
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Can't wait until they're rip later in August or early September!
I'm not sure in what part of the country you live either, or how early they were sown and planted, but from my experience growing sweetcorn in the Midlands I wouldn't expect sweetcorn cobs to be ready to harvest quite yet. I wouldn't expect my swetcorn to be ripe until later in August.
Firstly the tassels need to have turned brown. Then peel back the sheath from a cob and just push a nail into a cob to check for milky liquid to come out (not clear).
They are Mr Fothergills sweetcorn (sparrow F1)
I'd check cob development again in about 4 weeks time, during the second half of August.
what time of year are they supose to start? i have been giving them some of the tomato food