weird sweetcorn seeds

[lynda66]

i bough some earligold and orion f1 sweetcorn seeds off ebay, and erm they are pink and red ..... is confused ???

[pigletwillie]

They are coated in fungicides etc to stop them from rotting when planted.

[zazen999]

And wash your hands after handling them!

[Nicos]

Those were my first thoughts when we bought our first packet!!!

[Flummery]

And don't feed the seeds to your chickens!

[lynda66]

ok, so best plant em in modules then, don't want anything to eat em .... mind you most of last years went manky in the soil, so maybe these will be better??

i was panicking i'd bought weird red and pink corn ....... and i can't do pink

fankoo, i shall stop panicking now

[zazen999]

Have you seen Tammy's method for sweetcorn. I'm going to try it this year.

2 sheets of kitchen roll, fold in half so you've got a really long length. Put one seed on one end [about 2 inches in, and roll up. Pop a seed every roll until you get to the end [of course depends on the number you are sowing]. Put into a plastic bag and moisten the kitchen roll. Stand up and wait until they germinate and then you can unroll and put into the modules/loo roll inners/root trainers.

[lynda66]

oh that sounds good, i have 80 seeds lol (think i might save some till next year though).... i may give that a try thanks xx