This week, we’ve been harvesting the first of the sweetcorn crop. With no beds built for veg built at the new house in time for summer, growing has been greatly reduced, but I couldn’t resist using a small parcel of the garden behind the old greenhouse for a block of sweetcorn. Sweetcorn plants do take …
Finally. I grew sweetcorn. My allotment life is complete. Sweetcorn has always proven tricky for me, and all the other Burnham allotment holders. It’s not necessarily because we’re all useless growers (although the state of my cabbages would suggest there is certainly one…), it is more a problem with the good old Burnham badgers and their …
Yes! I Nailed Sweetcorn and It Tasted Incredible! Read More »
They say you can always spot a newbie at the Burnham-on-Crouch allotments because they’ll be growing sweetcorn. As a kid, the television told me that Badger loved mashed potatoes. Well, if he’s anything like the Burnham badgers, he’ll love sweetcorn more. I tried sweetcorn for the first two years of my plot tenancy. In my …
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