Sweetcorn & PSB

[ChrisH54]

Has anyone put there sweetcorn out yet? Grown in modules mine is huge but am loathe to put it out due to the drop in temp.

What am I doing wrong with my psb seed it's my nemisis have tried several times but it just keeps dying. Its a new packet of seeds, never have any probs with anything else - even parsnips.

Chris

[anni]

Hi
Yes, I put my sweetcorn in the ground last weekend after hardening off for 2-3 weeks.
I am totally new to all this and stupidly sowed my sweetcorn in early to mid March!!
So they were just too big for the house by the middle of April!
What I did do, as part of the hardening off process, was to put 3 plant sticks in each pot, covered by a bottomless and topless 2l plastic coke bottle. I did this because they were too tall and big to go in my mini plastic polytunnel or mini greenhouses and I wanted to give a bit of wind protection. I did lose one of my 16 to the wind as the bottle bent over taking the stem with it, but the rest survived and thickened up no end (they were very tall and thin when I started putting them out in the day).

Anyway, the weather here (Bristol) has been so warm the last two weeks, they've been loving being outstide in their final positions.

But as you say, today the temperature is forecast to reach only a max of 16 degrees and feels much cooler than the scorching temps we've had of late, the wind is up and cold and the sun has gone to bed, so I can only hope they will be okay...

Hope this helps

Anni

[zazen999]

Chris; what are you doing to your PSB?

I chucked a load of seed in a seed tray 2 weeks ago and it is now growing it's second set of leaves. This seed tray is outside, with no cover.

Mine like it not too wet and not too hot...and keeping it outside seems to keep damping off away, possibly due to the breeze around it.

try treating it mean and see what happens. I only water it when it really hasn't rained for about 3 or 4 days.

[Mr Griff]

We decided to stage our sweetcorn planting. We planted in 3 'fortnightly batches' of 12 plants per batch.
The first batch went into the allotment 2 weeks ago. The second batch will go in this weekend (weather permitting) and the final batch which are in the cold frame will be used to replace any of the first two batches that didn't make it - sort of an insurance batch!
The first batch all look very healthy at the moment.
Fingers crossed!

Mr Griff

[ChrisH54]

Thanks all for your answers, will be putting sweetcorn out in a bit. Obviously I am molly coddling the psb shall go and attempt yet another sowing.

Chris

[garygc2008]

Probably a really silly question, but whats PSB?

[hamsterqueen]

I have always been able to grow purple sprouting easily, but since moving to my present house which is very near to the sea and windy I have had no success. I've tried again growing it in a raised bed so Hope this may work. I'm thinking of keeping half in teh baed and transplanting the others in the soil (ie using the raised bed as a seed bed). I love PSB and it is so expensive to buy!

[garygc2008]

Ah, got it...... Purple sprouting broccoli.