When should I harvest or pick the corn? The appearance of the unhusked ears provide little information of the optimum time to harvest. Everyone has their way of telling if the corn is ready. 1. Some look at the silks as an indicator of when not to harvest, harvesting only when the silks are dry […]
Is It Possible To Grow Corn In Containers?
After eating Eugester’s sweet corn from Wisconsin, not just any sweet corn will do! Living in suburbia, in a postage stamp sized yard, the lack of space pretty much eliminated the possibility of planting corn. You might imagine my surprise upon stumbling across a sweet corn that will grow in containers! Is that possible? It is […]
Sweet Corn Tassle & Silk
You will notice one day that your corn will look like this…. the first photo shows the corn tassle. It is a good surprise! Corn is monoecious, which means that there are both male and female flowers on each corn plant. In some monoecious plants the male and female parts are located in a single flower. In […]