I have sweetcorn...

[danmon_81]

COME ON.....

For weeks i've been looking at the top of the sweetcorn thinking i wonder when its gonna turn into a cob.....

Today after closer inspection i've found 4 large (ish) cobs halfway up the plants....

They have the tasels out of them...i can only be a matter of weeks before i munch down on my most anticipated crop!!!

Share the stoke!!

Dan

[Alice]

Well done Danmon. I hope you get some fine weather to get them ripened.

[sharonr]

My sweetcorn is comming on well. The best ones are where I put old composted grass cuttings a coulple of plants have two cobs on them. I can`t wait for them, they are my favorate crop.

[queen of the cobs]

do you know the ripeness test for sweetcorn? i.e. pressing a kernel with your fingernail - if they are ripe, this will show a creamy coloured liquid from inside the kernel. If the liquid is watery, the sweet corn needs more time to ripen; if the liquid is almost like dough, the sweet corn is over-ripe. Start this testing when the silks (long silky threads which grow out of the cobs) turn brown and start to shrivel.