Growing Sweetcorn: Corn-on-the-Cob v Baby Corn
There are two types of sweetcorn that you can grow with Rocket Gardens – Sweet Nugget (pictured above) is your normal, corn-on-the-cob, and Minipop is a baby corn. They are…
Sweetcorn
When to harvest sweetcorn
If you’re growing your own sweetcorn to harvest corn-on-the-cobs, the key is to knowing exactly when to pick them for the sweetest, juiciest flavour. The advice for harvesting full sized,…
Late beans, courgettes, tomatoes & sweetcorn too! Diary of a Rocket Gardener
I can’t quite get over what a strange growing season it has been this year. I thought I’d do a little round up of what’s been going on. I know…
When to harvest baby sweetcorn
One question we get at this time of year is about growing and harvesting baby sweetcorn and whether or not they can be treated the same as regular sweetcorn. In…
Why hasn’t my sweetcorn grown properly?
This is one of the more common queries that we receive at this time of year… if your sweetcorn looks a little ‘bobbly’ with missing kernels when you peel back…
Success with Sweetcorn
There is nothing more joyous than eating your own homegrown sweetcorn. It is SO much sweeter and tastier than shop-bought corn. Having said that, it can be incredibly disappointing when…
Plant Sweetcorn in Grids, Not Rows
Understanding how sweetcorn grows will help to get good results from your plants. Sweetcorn is part of the grass family, and rather than relying on insects for pollination, it relies…
Plant sweetcorn in blocks, not rows
Don’t forget to plant your sweetcorn plants in blocks rather than in rows – they are pollinated by wind, so the proximity of growing them in a block will help…
Who’s been eating my sweetcorn?
So I’ve had a fair bit of slug damage on my sweetcorn plants. No biggie, I put down some beer traps and did a wood-and-stone-lifting exercise to collect and remove…
When Sweetcorn is a bit disappointing
We’ve all been there. You’ve waited weeks for your sweetcorn cobs to get nice and big, you’ve watched the tassles turn dark brown, you’ve harvested them and taken them to…