61 sown into roottrainers into dibbed holes and not covered.

good grief so many! I have half that!

Also they are 6" tall already so need to plant them out asap ... tomorrow I hope!

Oh good, so you found them then?

Yes, thanks Dom

BTW, they were exactly where they should have been. In one of my seed tubs, I had just kept not seeing them. Debbie looked and found them.

mine were savaged by a small but determined gang of marauding chickens
a paltry 10 seedlings, all stripped of leaves and with damaged root systems, attempting recovery in manure bed
Dr's say their condition remains critical

Just peered into the dibbed holes at my sweetcorn seeds and they are throwing out roots

my lotty sec did mine for me, bless. I didn't think I'd get time so sec has helped me out cos I'd got the Sweet Nugget ones for us both. He did Miracle and some mini pops too (as Icy always rates them)

Icy told me to get some the year before last and they were lovely. They all drownded last year but I've got 7 out t'back (not quite 61 ) which are doing ok and I'm planting the rest up the lotty this week hopefully.

I'm watching other people and they all do different things Some have rabbit fence all round and say they lose loads, others don't and have lovely cabbages etc. Some net peas, some don't. Sme have strings and foil and CDs to protect plantlets and some don't. I'm Befuddled by name and by nature just now Does anything munch sweetcorn? Pigeons? Bunnies? Deer? Badgers? Pheasants? Veggiesaurus? ok we don't have those..., but Gawd, my head urts....

Rats like sweetcorn, birds are meant to like youngs plants, oh, and earwigs like corn too. I've never had a problem though.

K, I'll just plonk em in then... it's a veritable wildlife haven round our site. There were wild geese plodding about tonight and a pheasant making a racket nearby anorl. I know geese eat corn cos they sit in the field next door munching their heads off

Sweetcorn planted, together with a few courgettes I'm just wondering now how long they'll survive

Mine's in too Dom, sweetcorn that is... shall we have a competition to see whose lasts longest?!

a grand total of 3 sweetcorn survived

Was going to say 'I'm bound to win that one Loops' but.... looks like Tara's a serious contender now

I have about 59 plantlets

bought some sweetcorn plants at the garden centre today

do I need to take out my three surviving plants to stop them crossing with the new ones?
I have no idea what variety the new sweetcorn is by the way

does nobody know the answer?

nope

ok. straight from Joy larkcom ....for best quality, isolation of supersweet and bicoloured is advisable

Since you don't know what yours are, I'd keep them all Probably only matters if you want to keep your own seeds...

don't think 3 would cause too much of a problem so I'd grow em together

Despite being only about 1' tall (at the end of today probably down to 1" ravaged stumps ) some of my sweetcorn is throwing up side shoots. Now, despite what others say, I have never known these amount to anything but do suspect they divert energy from the main plant. I planted only a foot apart to prevent them in the first place!

So, fellow Sages of Vegetables, do you think I can remove them?

I'd hedge me bets and remove some of them, but leave some on as a test like, then being the boff you are, you can evaluate the results for the rest of us sages

Ta. Go on then, what yer waiting for

I shall do it when I get the chance and shall report back. Do you think I should cut them or pull them off?

Leave them on, they do no harm I always get a few.