Grow Your Own Magazine

My sweetcorn isn't doing too bad, infact we ate the first two tonight but can anyone tell me whether or not I have a problem. This is only the second year I've tried sweetcorn, my early variety was very poor as it didn't seem to pollinate well but after reading up I planted my later variety in a nice tight block as in picture below.

Most of the plants have one main stem with two/three or four cobs on each, all are swelling and maturing nicely but two or three plants seem to also have extra shoots coming up from ground level and these end in the strange cobs as in the other picture.

Is this normal and okay? Should I remove these?

Attached Thumbnails

   

Leave all the shoots/cobs and see what happens. Sweetcorn seem to do their own thing and produce as many cobs as they can sustain. You don't need to worry about pinching out sideshoots lilke you would with tomatoes.