Chris and Steve's Weblog – City Chickens

I have been chitting the sweet corn seeds for a few days and have decided to sow a tray of coir pots today so the first twelve seeds are in. Need more pots now or toilet roll tubes for the rest or maybe even sow the others straight into the ground.

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I have put 30 seeds of Sweet Corn Incredible in to chit today. The packet cost 19p from Netto and is extra to our planned corn for this season. I couldn’t resist for 19p. It is supposed to be a fast growing sugary enhanced variety producing long sweet cobs. Update on 11th May; corn has [...]

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I have sown 24 chitted seeds of Sweetcorn Swift today to grow on a little before planting out on the corn bed later at the end of May or early June. They were chitted by laying them on damp kitchen paper with another layer on top, sealed in a plastic sandwich box and left in [...]

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I had fifteen cardboard tubes already half filled with seed compost so this morning I have sown ten Sweetcorn Two’s Sweeter bought from alanromans.com 50p for 25 seeds. I shall sow the other seeds at a later date as I have read that F1 Hybrids will all mature at the same time.

Originally a native of sub-tropical areas, [...]

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