Growing Sweet Corn

Although cobs will keep in their husks for a week in the fridge, they are best eaten quickly. Cook cobs in boiling water. Freeze corn by blanching cobs for five minutes in boiling water and then place them in iced water. Freeze whole cobs or remove ears before storing. Experience shows frozen corn is never as good as freshly harvested and cooked corn. Excess crops will be common. You can only give friends and neighbours so much excess corn. Your popularity will increase!

Note by Traute Klein, biogardener:

If you want corn without worms, the companion plant is radish. Stick radish seeds around the periphery of your corn patch at 1 foot intervals and let them grow to seed. The smell of the radish plant will keep flying insects away and no eggs will be laid within the patch. Therefore no worms will develop.

I also grow peas within the corn patch, because the pea plants replenish the nitrogen which the corn uses up in abundance. I do harvest the peas. I also mulch the corn with grass clippings to replenish the nitrogen.

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