On 23/8/06 21:13, in article , "p.k."
wrote:

David (in Normandy) wrote:
I've just had a look at a farmers sweetcorn/maize cob and it looks
like normal sweetcorn. The one I've just pulled had a cob inside 7
inches long but the individual sweetcorn seeds are still quite
immature. What is the difference to "human" sweetcorn? Are they just
different varieties with the farmers ones being different in some
subtle way?

Isn't maize grown as a silage crop ie the whole plant is cut, chopped &
fermented. the fruiting bit is less important

I remember Jersey farmers who grew maize as cattle fodder telling me that
there is a difference in taste between that and what we humans grow and
enjoy.
--
Sacha
www.hillhousenursery.co.uk
South Devon
http://www.discoverdartmoor.co.uk/

Isn't maize grown as a silage crop ie the whole plant is cut, chopped &
fermented. the fruiting bit is less important

I remember Jersey farmers who grew maize as cattle fodder telling me that
there is a difference in taste between that and what we humans grow and
enjoy.
--
Sacha

That bears out what our English neighbours (1/2 mile away!) said. They tried
boiling a couple of cobs of the farmers maize/sweetcorn that was growing
right up to their boundary and apparently it was inedible.
--
David
.... Email address on website http://www.avisoft.co.uk
.... Blog at http://dlts-french-adventures.blogspot.com/

On 24/8/06 09:28, in article , "David
(in Normandy)" wrote:

Isn't maize grown as a silage crop ie the whole plant is cut, chopped &
fermented. the fruiting bit is less important

I remember Jersey farmers who grew maize as cattle fodder telling me that
there is a difference in taste between that and what we humans grow and
enjoy.
--
Sacha

That bears out what our English neighbours (1/2 mile away!) said. They tried
boiling a couple of cobs of the farmers maize/sweetcorn that was growing
right up to their boundary and apparently it was inedible.

Yes, we tried some of the stuff our neighbouring farmer in Jersey was
growing and it tasted horrible!

--
Sacha
www.hillhousenursery.co.uk
South Devon
http://www.discoverdartmoor.co.uk/