In message , Nick Maclaren
writes
Being brought up on maize, I like sweetcorn
rather riper than is the taste in this country. It won't get
too ripe to eat as sweetcorn gere, because we don't get enough
sun to ripen it properly.

Don't they say it takes 100 days of sun to ripen corn?

That's about right, but I didn't know that they said it!

'They' being, if I remember right, US seed packets, yonks ago.


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Klara, Gatwick basin