Here in Normandy we are surrounded by fields full of sweetcorn around 6 - 7
feet high.
It makes my 200 or so plants look poor. Mine have barely grown three feet
despite being planted a month before the farmers, though the farmers
sweetcorn did have the advantage of being planted in "soil" - I planted in
an area that had been skimmed by a JCB to clear 6 feet high brambles etc, so
the soil is very thin and mainly sub-soil and rocks. They haven't had any
additional watering so the dry weather has also held them back.

Still, can't complain, today we tried our first couple of corns - they are
at the halfway stage between baby sweetcorn (eat the entire cob) and
standard sweetcorn where you only gnaw the corn off. Very nice though. They
are averaging two cobs per plant.

The strange thing is, a packet of around 20 sweetcorn seeds is relatively
expensive from the garden centre, but I happened to notice the local
supermarket was selling little string bags containing hundreds of sweetcorn
seeds intended to be made into popcorn - these were much cheaper, so I took
a gamble and bought and planted a load of those with almost 100% germination
rate :-)
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David
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