Best sweetcorn?

[mic]

Quite happy with what I grew this year but wish the corn bits were bigger (individual bits not the size of the cob) can anyone reccomend so I can buy seeds ready for next year?

Cheers

[Baldy]

I've gone for super sweet varieties in the last few years but this year they got flattened by wind the evening after I'd planted them out - looking around the 50 or so plots on the allotment only two have cobs of the size I'd be expecting to see, so I wonder if the weather has not been great for sweetcorn?

[bario1]

I'd say small kernels were ideal, if there are plenty of them? Small = tender?

I grew Earlybird outside, up here in Scotland in a bad summer, and I'm eating smallish but tasty cobs now, so I'm well impressed (with the variety, not myself)

[TrixC]

I always grow Lark. I've tried a few others over the years but keep coming back to it.

[bario1]

I grew Lark before I tried Earlybird

[Jimmy]

Aldi had had some on there super 6. Think it was 59p for two !
Jimmy

[ecudc]

Swift for me

[burnie]

I've grown F1 Swift and Earliebird in the greenhouse, just started eating the earliebird and it's very juicy and tasty(I eat mine raw straight off the plant, even my veg dodging son in law enjoyed one yesterday.

[chris_m]

I've grown F1 Swift and Earliebird in the greenhouse

What do you do about pollination?
I'm considering trying some in my greenhouse next year, now that it's no longer a glass shed, but was wondering if it would be too sheltered for them to get pollinated well.

[bramble]

My brother in law gave me some sweetcorn plants this year.
They have grown really well.
How will I know when they are ready to harvest?

[Nannysally99]

When the tassels turn dark brown bramble

[no_akira]

I've gone for super sweet varieties in the last few years but this year they got flattened by wind the evening after I'd planted them out - looking around the 50 or so plots on the allotment only two have cobs of the size I'd be expecting to see, so I wonder if the weather has not been great for sweetcorn?

This year I planted my Corn grid windward side of a twin row of supported Jerusalem Artichokes. Because the JA's are planted in march they have a head start on the Corn and give them something to lean against if blown by strong winds.

Just an idea, worked for me...

[Cadalot]

Swift & Lark, as Balders said it's been a really diff year for sweetcorn on the two allotments that I have plots on, they are shorter and the cobs are not as long or fat as usual. Re pollination I always help by shaking the heads of each plant over the cobs of the neighbouring plants and go round the whole block a couple of times, and always get full pollination of the cobs this way.

[bario1]

I've gone for super sweet varieties in the last few years but this year they got flattened by wind the evening after I'd planted them out - looking around the 50 or so plots on the allotment only two have cobs of the size I'd be expecting to see, so I wonder if the weather has not been great for sweetcorn?

This year before planting out my seedlings I created a 3' high windbreak using strong metal poles pushed into the ground with good polythene stretched round them, buried at the bottom, and secured with polytunnel repair tape - worked a treat, first ever outside corn, and better pollination than previous crops grown in the tunnel... and we haven't even had a decent summer. Freed up tunnel space for more toms too.