Sweetcorn question

[jonny the plant pot]

Just a quick one can you grow sweetcorn in the same area year after year

[Bigmallly]

Don't see why not Jonny as long as there has been no disease in that area.

[jonny the plant pot]

Cheers mally I'm thinking of using it to grow a wall round the front of my plot

[Greenleaves]

I do Jonny, out of the wind and away from the rats!

Never had an issue

[Bigmallly]

Cheers mally I'm thinking of using it to grow a wall round the front of my plot

They say to grow it in blocks rather than rows.

[jonny the plant pot]

Plant to plant it in zigzags and give them a shake now and again

[bobbin]

I move mine but I'm not sure why. I see no problem in same plot growing as it doesn't seem to attract many pests.Some blackfly late this year though.
Badgers are the worst pest on our lottie. Some of my very experienced neighbours lost all their harvest to badgers. They wire netted it but the badgers clawed the net down to gain access. I had put posts and ties. at regular intervals to support the netting but they had only placed a post in each corner. No extra experience on my part I just spent more time making it harder for the critters and it worked ...this time!

[Snadger]

I'm not saying that this is what I do but:-I think in a four year rotation of Legumes,brassicas,roots and other, sweetcorn is classed as 'other'?

I would imagine there will be various nutrients and diseases that only sweetcorn need or suffer from. Growing in the same spot each year would surely exhaust the required nutrients and prolong any soil born pests?

In the end though i suppose this is going by the book, and sweetcorn don't read books!

If it works for you, its sometimes best just to stick with what you are doing!

One good thing is sweetcorn shouldn't suffer from Aminopyralid poisoning whatever muck you use, as its a grass and the poison is designed to kill broad leaved weeds in grassland!