Damon Heron wrote:
I am worried that my sweet corn is a failure. It is only 4-5 feet high and
already has tassels and very small ears forming. This is my first year
planting corn and I think it is doomed. Where did I go wrong??


I don't know where you are, but 'round here, I'm delighted to get corn
that's 4 or 5 feet high. I planted some last year in containers....so
including the container, they weren't much taller than me (at 5'4"). I
got three or four delicious ears off each of them.

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Zone 5b in Canada's not-much-of-a-corn-belt Far East.

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We must change the way we live,
or the climate will do it for us.