Sweetcorn.What went wrong

**Aberdeenplotter** · 29-07-2011, 04:21 PM

Whatever went wrong for you isn't so different from what has gone wrong with my own and for the guy in the plot next to mine. We had a discussion about the failure to perform this morning and we have concluded that the plants got a check with some of the cold nights we have had up here. Not quite a frost but close enough for the plants to shut up shop and give up. I made a point of growing a variety - Northern Extra Sweet - said to be able to cope with northern cooler areas but I guess Aberdeen was just a bit too Northern.

**Two_Sheds** · 29-07-2011, 04:37 PM

Originally posted by Aberdeenplotter View Post

Northern Extra Sweet -...I guess Aberdeen was just a bit too Northern.

As is Norfolk. NES was absolutely rubbish (grown last year). I've gone back to Conqueror

**Aberdeenplotter** · 29-07-2011, 04:46 PM

Originally posted by Two_Sheds View Post

As is Norfolk. NES was absolutely rubbish (grown last year). I've gone back to Conqueror

I do remember you saying in an earlier post that NES was rubbish last year but I did hope to prove you wrong. The best results I ever had up here with sweetcorn was a variety called Dickson but it only seemed to be available for a year and then it disappeared. I'd have tried keeping some seed if I known it wouldn't be available again.

**Two_Sheds** · 29-07-2011, 04:53 PM

Yep, sometimes you've just got to try things for yourself. I do hope that some of my posts help others avoid the mistakes I've made though

**ladylottie** · 29-07-2011, 04:54 PM

My sweetcorn is exactly the same - total rubbish. Have done really well the last couple of years (grew Incredible last year and Sweet Bounty the year before). This year went back to Sweet Bounty but it must have been too cold for them at a critical stage in their development. Even if they do recover now it will be too late for this year. Never mind - will try again next year. That's growing for you I suppose.

**zazen999** · 29-07-2011, 05:16 PM

Ditto. Aah well. That's life.

**Potstubsdustbins** · 29-07-2011, 05:27 PM

I don't grow sweetcorn so have no experience but a lady across the road who I might add is not a gardener has stuck a few plants in her front garden. They are now about 3/4ft high and look extremely healthy. My son who plants are like the pic above is not at all impressed.

Colin

**reetnproper** · 29-07-2011, 06:12 PM

You are not alone. My sweetcorn (Sundance) are dreadful this year and I haven't had any problems with them over the last 3 years. Did everything the same but I'll be very surprised if I get any decent cobs off them this year.

Reet
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**crazii_c** · 29-07-2011, 07:21 PM

mine are tiny plants, dont seem to want to get any taller (only come up to my knee) its my first year growing it but im not letting it put me off. i think its just been a bad year for sweetcorn, the weathers not been right.

**rustylady** · 29-07-2011, 07:45 PM

There's still a bit of time left providing the weather improves.

**realfood** · 29-07-2011, 07:49 PM

It could be cold or drought. My sweetcorn in Glasgow are fine, Swift and Mirai, but I always cover them with a Lidl cloche for June to protect them from cold nights.

**bearded bloke** · 29-07-2011, 08:33 PM

Could it be wilting caused by corn flea beetle ? that is what has happened to mine

**Rhona** · 29-07-2011, 09:46 PM

I sowed some F1 on the 13th March, and got a few raised eyebrows (not here) for being so early. I think it was a lucky call as the plants were at the right stage at the right time to do well, but the same strategy could be disastrous another year I suppose. I plant them in long kitchen roll tubes, and they go into very heavily manured beds. There's been little rain here, and we have watered them loads (up to three times a week), not least because because there's pumpkins/squash underneath them in the same bed. I know others nearby haven't had a good crop, so perhaps we were lucky (first cobs just ripe). I'll sow early again next year though...

On the other hand, our PSB is completely nothing-y and I'm incapable of growing decent beans this year, apparently.

**bethduckie** · 29-07-2011, 09:46 PM

My corn are still teacup sized. I'm going to haul them out andplant a quick crop in their place.

Never mind... perhaps another allotmenteer will swap me a cob or two of theirs for any of my vast number of courgettes...LMAO! Think 'dream on' is the term there.

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