How to Plant and Grow Sweet Corn

good day Welcome to our cultivate my name's Steve and today we're going to be looking at growing sweet corn this is my current crop of sweet corn ready to harvest before I do that I'm going to plant out another bed of corn ready for the next season this is the bed into which I'm now going to plant my new crop of corn now corn is a really heavy feeder so therefore you need to make sure that within the bed you've got such things as well-aged chicken manure um compost Blood and Bone dug through to ensure that all those essential nutrients are available to the plant as it is growing so let's now plant the seeds couple of things to keep in mind though you need to plant them about 2 and 1/2 CM deep you want them about 25 cm apart and rows of about 50 cm apart as well would be good so let's get that [Music] done [Music] so I've now got three rows of corn here planted about 50 cm apart and within each row each seed has been sewn about 25 cm apart let's now have a look at harvesting our corn so now I'm going to harvest this corn but before I do that a couple of things to be aware of you'll notice how closely the corn has been planted together mentioned just a moment ago the reason for this is because corn is wind pollinated you have the male flour at the top here and it produces pollen that then falls down through the crop the closer you have got up to a point the corn planted the more effective the pollination will be and therefore the better quality corn cob that will be produced corn cobs that have only got random kernels formed on them are an indicator of poor pollination so those cobs that have formed well with well distributed compact kernels are cobs that have been subjected to good pollination so how do I know where my corn is ready to harvest well it comes down to the silks on the top of the corn cobs nearly developing corn cobs have got very fine green feathery silks but as they become pollinated and grow and mature those silks tend to Brown off as you can see here when the silks have brown off that is an indicator that the cob is probably ready to harvest another quick check that you can perform is to literally just peel back the covering of the Corn and you can see the corn kernels here are nicely formed that tells us that this is ready to harvest so let's now Harvest simply pull and twist pull and twist and there's two cops this is my Harvest of corn from that really small area the size of the cobs varies but you know I don't really care because even the smallest one will deliver the juiciest corn let's have a look look at that for a beautiful Club of corn I think that will be part of dinner tonight fantastic the last point for this video is that corn is probably the best crop that I have seen for freezing so don't be concerned about having too much simply strip back the leaves and then take the cob cut it into the desired lengths and then simply throw it into the freezer it will be as good in 3 months time as it is today so I hope you've enjoyed this video can I please encourage you to leave your comments on this YouTube channel and also go to our website I cultivate and join the community thanks for watching