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Icyberjunkie · Posted: Tue Oct 07, 2008 7:01 pm Post subject:

growing veg wrote:

I don't like sweetcorn, so didn't grow any Razz

Lily, don't know how I missed that reply you put up with
the wilkos link Embarassed

Just saw it now ....8 months later Embarassed

Sorry! And thank you Smile

Wot, not even the little ones for stir frying.... Shocked

(I hate the big ones too cos they just get stuck in your teeth and come out the same as they went in!)

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loobytoo · Posted: Wed Oct 08, 2008 7:39 pm Post subject:

Icy told me to grow Minipop (the stir fry size ones) and they're ace - I eat them off the plant sometimes Laughing

Not tried big cobs at all, but I might give them a go next year on the lotty.

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Welsh Girls Allotment · Posted: Thu Oct 09, 2008 7:51 pm Post subject:

I bought some allegedly mini pop seeds from flea bay they are the biggest mini things I've ever seen - almost as big as standard sweetcorn and only now are they contemplating maturing Evil or Very Mad

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redimp · Posted: Thu Oct 09, 2008 8:01 pm Post subject:

Ah, but, you see. That's where you went wrong. Pick em small and don't let them mature. I don't grow em mind! Very Happy

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Icyberjunkie · Posted: Thu Oct 09, 2008 9:39 pm Post subject:

Impy's right about the picking. Mini-pop you have to harvest as soon as the tassles appear. If you leave them to 'ripen' like full size cobs they just go all starchy with big cores and are not nice eating at all.

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Flowerlady · Joined: 15 Jan 2006 Posts: 3336 Location: Herts

Icyberjunkie wrote:

.... If you leave them to 'ripen' like full size cobs they just go all starchy with big cores and are not nice eating at all.

Coo ... maybe I was given the wrong seeds!! Mine were exactly as you describe ... totally yak! Evil or Very Mad

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Welsh Girls Allotment · Posted: Thu Oct 09, 2008 10:37 pm Post subject:

Icyberjunkie wrote:

Impy's right about the picking. Mini-pop you have to harvest as soon as the tassles appear. If you leave them to 'ripen' like full size cobs they just go all starchy with big cores and are not nice eating at all.

now you tell me Wink

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SeedQueen · Joined: 17 Jul 2006 Posts: 586

Me too WGA, I've been waiting for my Minipop to ripen as well Rolling Eyes

Think i will go and pick what I have later on

growing veg · Joined: 05 Jul 2007 Posts: 248 Location: The Emerald Isle

Scared to gro any ...
flashbacks to children of the corn film from years ago Laughing

Flowerlady · Joined: 15 Jan 2006 Posts: 3336 Location: Herts

growing veg wrote:

Scared to gro any ...
flashbacks to children of the corn film from years ago Laughing

I remember that film! Just don't grow anything taller than 4ft !! Laughing

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I love my vegetable garden. So here is my sad ballad: I nurtured it for months, And ate it in one salad!

wardy · Posted: Tue Oct 14, 2008 3:36 pm Post subject:

My mini pops are the same. Great big things but not ripe. Are they sposed to be like that Confused

Them in the shops are little but at least they're ripe

Scratches head and wonders off muttering Rolling Eyes

redimp · Posted: Tue Oct 14, 2008 4:00 pm Post subject:

tsk - scroll up!! Rolling Eyes

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wardy · Posted: Wed Oct 15, 2008 8:40 am Post subject:

Tsk yerself Very Happy

I did read it but there was nowt there to explain why they look unripe and yet we're supposed to eat em Confused

The ones in the shop look yellow and glossy as sweetcorn should so I was doubtful about eating sommat that looks as if the kernels aren't even formed

What kind of good eating is that Rolling Eyes

Even for chooks Cool

Icyberjunkie · Posted: Wed Oct 29, 2008 8:50 pm Post subject:

Did you plant them late?? I put mine in what I thought was to late and they are very well finished and the plants dug up now.

They should be ripe as soon as the tassles start to peek out the top of the leaves round the cob so not sure whats happened to yours Wardy....

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"Still other seed fell on good soil. It came up, grew and produced a crop,multiplying thirty, sixty, or even a hundred times" Mark 4, v8

Icyberjunkie · Posted: Wed Oct 29, 2008 8:52 pm Post subject:

oh yes....

If you look under been plotting you can see in my picture the last that I picked to give you some idea (unless its been moved to the October harvest picture thread that is.....)

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"Still other seed fell on good soil. It came up, grew and produced a crop,multiplying thirty, sixty, or even a hundred times" Mark 4, v8

wardy · Posted: Wed Oct 29, 2008 10:46 pm Post subject:

righto, I'll go and have a look-see Very Happy

Icyberjunkie · Posted: Sat Nov 01, 2008 2:50 pm Post subject:

well????

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frenchchique · Joined: 22 Sep 2006 Posts: 3466 Location: Kent

she's busy, she's gawn down Saff Cool

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Icyberjunkie · Posted: Sun Nov 02, 2008 2:41 pm Post subject:

Thats okay then - its the best place to be ...after scotland of course Very Happy

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"Still other seed fell on good soil. It came up, grew and produced a crop,multiplying thirty, sixty, or even a hundred times" Mark 4, v8

redimp · Posted: Sun Nov 02, 2008 4:17 pm Post subject:

It's all right - the decontamination unit has been put on stand by for her return!!! Razz

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frenchchique · Joined: 22 Sep 2006 Posts: 3466 Location: Kent

Since we're into sweetcorn, I just ordered some minipop sweetcorn seeds from Kings this morning Cool

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Welsh Girls Allotment · Posted: Wed Nov 05, 2008 9:13 pm Post subject:

Don't forget to pick 'em young Cool

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wardy · Posted: Wed Nov 05, 2008 11:19 pm Post subject:

I'm going to have another go with these after this year's debacle Very Happy