Too late for sweetcorn?

[HeyWayne]

On the plot yesterday and noticed sweetcorn on my neighbour's plot. The plants are about 6-8 inches high.

I haven't even sown any yet - have I missed the boat you think?

[rustylady]

With the weather we're having this year you might be better off with rice Seriously though, mine is sown (in the greenhouse in celltrays) but is only about 3 inches tall.

[scarey55]

My trusty GYO year planner says sow in April and May but I am hoping to get some in, if this bladdy rain stops, that is!
Worth a go - after all, the worst that will happen is a lost packet of seeds.

[HeyWayne]

I think the same - what's the worst that could happen?

My trusty GYO year planner says sow in April and May but I am hoping to get some in, if this bladdy rain stops, that is!
Worth a go - after all, the worst that will happen is a lost packet of seeds.

[Farmer_Gyles]

at this time of year my sweetcorn would normally be at last 12-24 inches tall .... i doubt it's worth bothering with new sowing at this time of year .... i don't think there's enough time for them to grow and produce edible corn ....

i've sown 5 trays of sweetcorn this year, the first 4 got scoffed by mice, some of the 5th got scorched in the greenhouse a couple of weeks ago .... only 5 of the 5th batch left ....
i bought some from B&Q a week ago as a last resort .... they were about 5in tall .... they looked really good, strong and healthy .... left them on the kitchen windowsill and they wilted ..... now all looking dead ....

if the weather perks up i'll plant out the 5 i have left and hope for the best .....

[Jamesy_uk]

Depends how long the growing season lasts to be honest, everything is so far behind this year you probably wouldn't be that far behind ones sown a month ago if the weather picked up. However if things carry on like this you'd probably be pushing it to have them ripen before the weather turns really nasty if it carries on like this.

[binley100]

Out of my first sowing of 36 , one germinated . After a second sowing I have 12 plants that are about 2" high .......I' ll probably chuck 'em in to see what happens but not expecting anything ......

[CaroltheCarrot]

My early sowings(march/April) are doing well, in their own gh and are about 3 foot high.
Later sowings though,last month have done exactly diddly squat, am not going to bother with any more

[VirginVegGrower]

Mine are about two foot tall and I held them at home in pots because of the weather. I normally plant out in May, but they went out last week. Most folks are behind and to be honest if mine survive a check in growth I'll be surprised. Go for it as they'll probably declare an Indian summer soon
I do agree with Rusty - rice seems a better option.

[zazen999]

I usually sow some a bit later for a harvest around Sept time; and my current seedlings are only 3 weeks old. If you have a heated prop/airing cupboard - stick them in there and they should germinate in 3-4 days and be about 6 inches high in a fortnight.

We had bad rain 5 summers ago [we remember it because we moved here that year] and we still had a good crop of sweetcorn - and mine got eaten by mice when we moved the seedlings here so they can't have been that much older than the ones I sowed a fortnight ago.

Last year we were still picking toms into November - outside. So get some in now and keep those fingers crossed.

[HeyWayne]

At worst I could have babycorn I suppose...

[Alison]

Sowed mine nice and early, 100% germination and now it's just stopped growing. It's in root trainers in the greenhouse and absolutely nothing is happening, personally not bothered as it's the food of the devil but OH likes it so feel I ought to try. Was wondering about picking up some plug plants as there is no way the ones I have will do anything, sown a couple of months ago and still teeny.

[Paulottie]

At worst I could have babycorn I suppose...

Does not quite work like that i'm afraid Wayne...doh!

Well we have one batch in ...looking pretty sad. ( bottle cloches can help)

I have 70 in pots about 100 more to sow...I guess we will find out. I don't think it is too late but if this crap weather continues they will not amount to anything....they need to be warm.

[kathyd]

The farmers over here only planted quite recently, and most of theirs (outdoors, obviously), is really quite small but does seem to be growing. I have some in the tunnel which is growing well, but the stuff in the garden is still only 3-4" high. I'd definitely plant some now if I hadn't already - in fact I may still plant some more given that my brassicas are flowering before they've finished growing so it looks like I'll have empty space soon . I think it's important to try things out anyway - if we're going to have random weather in the future, we need to know what we can get away with and which varieties do best etc.

[leonmc0708]

I grew a load in the heated proporgator, managed to get 16 of em to a decent size of about 6inch on the windowsill then put them under cloches outside. Sadly (and rather strangely) the four nearest the greenhouse (planted in a block of 4X4) where eaten the rest remained untouched.

the remaining 12 are literally flying, approx 2ft tall and with two side shoots of arouns 1ft-1 and a half foot.

Everytime I go the plot they have grown.

I put some more in 3 weeks ago - straight in the ground 2 seeds per station I did another block of 4X7 of the F1 large cob variety and a second block of Mini Pop on the otherside of my plot to prevent cross pollonation between the two in the wind.

the MiniPop is under plastic (acquired from a neaighbour of my dads plastic greenhouse that blew down) and is shooting through right now, only small. they where sown 2 per station in a block of 5X5.

the F1 larger ones are not under cover, and I am thinking of covering them this week to get them going as they are as yet not germinating.