On Wed, 13 Sep 2006 Bob Hobden wrote:

Where are you? Sounds a bit late to me......in London UK. I've grown
sweetcorn for a number of years, and they're all eaten by now.

Mine are just starting. We had the first this evening.

And there seems to be plenty growing in fields round here.

Well that's probably for maize which is used for animal feed. Cobs for
eating (corn on the cob) are picked when the niblets are still soft and
milky in the centre not rock hard and inedible. :-)
A couple of the "new" gardeners on our allotments left there's much too
long, and unfortunately they only get down there when I don't or I would
have told them, bet they were disappointed.

Well I have to confess that I sowed mine deliberately late so that they
would be ripe in September, as I'm away for the whole of August. But
those we had this evening weren't quite ripe enough as the "niblets"
were still quite small. I guess they'll all be ready in a couple of
weeks.

David

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