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Our Sweetcorn Crop Failure

21/9/2010

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Two thirds of my sweetcorn crop has failed. The extent of the disaster can be seen from this photo. The ones that came good were those which we grew from seed and which we planted out in good time. But I felt we didn’t have enough and I bought a large batch of small plants from Mammoth Onion on 16th June. They were planted out a week later, just at the time when the warm dry weather ended and the rains began. Or to put it another way, the time when a hose-pipe ban was imposed. The plants never really took hold and the result is corns like the ones on the right of the photo, which are good enough for Henry, our guinea pig, but not for anything else
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