New to Baby Sweetcorn Growing

When I mentioned to a friend I was growing corn, they seemed to think it would be impossible, now I did explain this was actually Baby Sweetcorn not your normal Corn on the Cob type, but they still seemed to have the opinion that it wouldn't grow as we don't get enough sun in England.

As like most of my seeds, the Baby Sweetcorn started off growing in the propagator in early February and once they grew to a suitable handling size, they were then, replanted in small pots and left to grow to around 10cms. These were then hardened off, planted and well watered into a larger pot on the Balcony.

As the months went by out of the five plants originally grown, only three survived, at first they needed a little support, so green garden sticks were carefully and loosely tired to the plants, but later were not needed, as the larger they became the less they needed this.

 

                                                                                   Photo: Laura Lunt  Date: June 2011

Not knowing really how to care for Baby Sweetcorn, I've treated them the same as my tomato plants and watered as much as possible, everyday if not every other day and also fed these with tomato feed every 10-14 days. So far so good as they've continued to grow and thinking they'd never produce any vegetables at all, after checking the top inside leaves last weekend, you can now see the corn developing.