Growing Sweetcorn in 50 Ltr Pots.

[Richard Eldritch]

New poster here. Just thought I'd share my sweetcorn technique. All the expert advice suggests blocks and wide spacings but I've found that I can get 5 Sundance plants in a 50 ltr pot (Asda three for a tenner)with great results. Sundance are a dwarf standard sweetness well suited to close growth in cooler climates. I grow them in BQ verve compost with 4 onces of blood fish and bone mixed in. I sow in modules 2nd week of May and plant out on 1st June with kebab sticks for support. As they mature, I give them a weekly Miracle Grow feed, which seems to super charge them!
I then shake the pollen into a large envelope and hand sprinkle it onto the female tassles, which I repeat every day untill the pollens all gone. Come August I get one large cob per plant and sometime a little un as well. I grow about 30 plants across 6 Pots. Looks great as well.......

[Nannysally99]

So looking forward to growing sweetcorn this year. I have one large and deep recycling container reserved for them. Will try and remember your techniques. Thank you

[Richard Eldritch]

Cheers Nan, I've only done this with Sundance, but this year I'm also trying a super sweet as well. Now I know some will cry "Don't mix two different sweetcorn!" but in truth, on small scale, it doesn't matter if a a kernal or two in a cob is cross fertilised. That's of course if they even flower at the same time...

[Kristen]

Con small scale, it doesn't matter if a a kernal or two in a cob is cross fertilised

You sure about that? I've not tried it, but I know of people who have and who reported hard corns that were not very edible mixed in with the sweet ones.

That's of course if they even flower at the same time...

Indeed If you can I would sow so that they "flower" at different times.

[Richard Eldritch]

Supersweets mature much later than Sundance Kris ( or so I'm told!) I doubt a couple of cross fertized kernals would even be noticed, but I'll let you know!