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What to do with my sweetcorn?

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  • 17-08-2009 12:46pm
    #1
    poppyfields
    Registered Users Posts: 162 ✭✭


    Hi,

    I've planted the three sisters this year. Wanted to be like the Indians and have the three crops together feeding each other. The Borlotti Beans are growing up the tepee and they are fixing nitrogen back in, the squashes are around the circle supressing weeds. I've attached a pic of what it looked like when I built it in June

    But I have no idea what to do with sweetcorn. How do I get lovely corn? I have 16 planted in blocks of 4 x 4 as this is the min they need to pollinate but after that I do not have a clue.


    www.lifeinthesloelane.moonfruit.com


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    Rujib1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 369 ✭✭Rujib1


    poppyfields wrote: »
    Hi,

    I've planted the three sisters this year. Wanted to be like the Indians and have the three crops together feeding each other. The Borlotti Beans are growing up the tepee and they are fixing nitrogen back in, the squashes are around the circle supressing weeds. I've attached a pic of what it looked like when I built it in June

    But I have no idea what to do with sweetcorn. How do I get lovely corn? I have 16 planted in blocks of 4 x 4 as this is the min they need to pollinate but after that I do not have a clue.


    www.lifeinthesloelane.moonfruit.com


    I planted sweet corn last year for the first time. like you, didn't have a clue, but in the end I got super corn cobs.
    Wait till you get the cobs growing. When they near maurity, a sort of hairy bunch grows from the end of the cob. This is called the tassle. It is greeny yellow at first, graduallt turning yellow, to gold, and then at the end it turns brown. when the tassle is nicely brown in colour, the corn cob is ready to harvest.

    R1


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