On Sat, 7 Aug 2010, Alan Johnson wrote:

Someone gave me a few sweetcorn plants that were surplus to their
requirements. I've planted them but as with most surplus plants they
probably went in a bit later than optimum.
They have grown well and the one flower on each are just beginning to
show but not yet open. I don't know whether they are too late to
produce crops and so dig them up?
What stage should they be at?
DAvy

We took our first sweet corn harvest yesterday. They tasted great, but
some of the cobs have what I can only describe as 'empty patches'.
Others are fine. Does anybody know what causes these empty patches on
the cob?

Lack of regular watering/rain.

David

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David Rance
writing from Le Mesnil Villement, Calvados, France