We're growing two varieties of sweetcorn. The first is our traditional variety that we've grown for the past 2 years. Not sure what it's called but we have yet to actually taste it as sweetcorn cobs directly. We've never been able to judge when it's ripe and ready and have always missed it at it's peak.
But that hasn't stopped us enjoying it. The kernels are full and round and don't shrivel up even when "dry". So the big benefit of this is that they can still be used as pop corn, and there they cannot be beaten. We just knock a small handful off the cob and drop them in the popcorn machine and mere seconds later we have nice full fluffy popcorn. A little goes a long way.
When we plant them, we pretty much get about a 99% germination rate. A little goes a long way.
The second variety is supposedly a full organic variety with big full cobs. However the actual little kernels are extremely shrivelled up and we're only getting about a 10% germination rate on them. So we're going to see how these fare. We may just use these as traditional corn cobs. But we're definitely keeping the popcorn variety long term now. I still have to try grinding the corn into flour and seeing if I can make corn bread.
Now I have a concern. The potatoes are poking their shoots up and seem to be off to a decent start. These are Maris Peers that I planted just a couple of weeks back. But now a couple of the plants are showing some brown spots on them (top).
Only two plants are showing this. The rest are the normal healthy green (bottom). Could this be the dreaded blight so early in the season. What do you think?
Ah well. More to do tomorrow.
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