There is nothing quite like homegrown Sweetcorn. There simply isn’t!

As a child, I didn’t even like sweetcorn that much (but I’d always had it in a can as a child) and I hadn’t even realised how sweetcorn was grown until I watched movies when I was young.

Fast forward 25 years and I have my own family and my daughter who is 5, already knows what sweetcorn looks like, how it grows and how great it tastes when it’s harvested from our vegetable garden in our backyard.

Sweetcorn is a firm favourite in our household and it is grown every year. This is our biggest year yet with 15 plants! It’s not quite covering the whole of the raised bed, there’s still just enough room for 2 pumpkin plants, a Calendula and a bunch of sunflowers!

Sweetcorn is easy to grow

I urge you to try growing this fantastic vegetable at home as the plants are tall but grow well in raised beds.

Sweetcorn is easy to grow and just needs watering and compost in the raised bed to start growing.

Grow Your Own Sweetcorn Cobs

This year I am Growing Variety: Goldcrest F1

• Sowed: 27 April in root trainers in the unheated greenhouse.
• Germinated: 5 May

• Plant Out into Raised Bed: 18 May – Spacing 30cm apart. Plant in a grid formation for Wind pollination.
• We lost one plant to wind damage and plant not forming properly.

• Sweetcorn puts on growth, they are approx 5 feet high.

• Top Tassels forming: 12 July.
• Cobs starting to form: 20 July.
• Harvest Cobs: Not Yet

We are now waiting for the sweetcorn cobs to form….

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The Sweetcorn Series

May – How to Plant out Sweetcorn into a Raised Bed with Video.

July – Grow Your Own Sweetcorn Cobs – Update

September – Harvest Timeline

November – Last Years Sweetcorn – And Finally we have Sweetcorn to Harvest