Sweetcorn, of course! It’s harvest time!
I used to have real problems growing sweetcorn, but since last year have started planting them in a block across two of my beds, three across the 1.2m ( 4′) bed. So I have three plants, a 60cm (2′) path then three more plants. This is worked very well. Along the beds I just keep planting until I run out of plants — usually somewhere around forty-eight plants. Depending on how things go, I also plant a few winter squashes around their feet.
A few usually get eaten before the main harvest though we try to finish any that are still frozen from the previous year first (if we have guests however, it’s always nice to have the freshest ones we can get and it’s fun to harvest and prep them together). Since I changed to growing this way we’ve always had plenty to harvest:
Including the occasional monster
Some of these will be eaten straight away, others frozen as soon as possible. They turn much more yellow than they are immediately the leaves are removed, but I’ve not been able to find out why so far. I assume it’s something to do with the beta-carotene, but I really don’t know.
