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Grow your own: Sweetcorn

3rd March 2023 Web Editor Fruit & Veg Growing Guides

There is nothing more delightful on a warm summer’s evening than eating barbecued home-grown sweetcorn; the juices and melted butter dribbling down your chin. It’s simple to grow your own and a great one to involve children in. You’ll have the kids eating vegetables in no time! Sweetcorn is a type of maize and it produces its cobs of yellow…

How to sow

24th April 2020 Shannon Butcher Tips and Advice

Some vegetables are sown direct and then thinned out as they grow and are harvested where they were originally sown. However there is another technique; this uses a nursery bed to sow seeds in to and these are moved to their final positions when they are small plants. Traditionally crops such as brassicas (cabbages, kale, cauliflowers, Brussels sprouts etc.) and…

Podcast 79: Sweet and Savoury Corn

24th April 2020 Rachel Atkins Podcast

The Kitchen Garden Magazine Podcast – packed full of hints, tips and advice from the team. Corn ranges from savoury to super sweet, yellow to blue, giant growers to hip high minis – it’s not just sweetcorn! It has always been a staple of native Indians in the United States, with most corn varieties actually being more savoury in flavour…

Video: On the Plot – September

24th September 2019 Steve Ott Video

In this video, we go through jobs you can be doing this month, harvesting sweetcorn and do a tomato taste testing…with a twist! For more videos, visit the Kitchen Garden YouTube channel at the link below: www.youtube.com/kitchengardenmagazine…

Video: Growing Sweetcorn – Episode Two

20th September 2019 Emma Rawlings Video

In our second episode on how to grow Sweetcorn, Emma and Tony share some more advice on what to do as the crop grows. For more videos, visit the Kitchen Garden YouTube channel at the link below: www.youtube.com/kitchengardenmagazine…

Video: Growing Sweetcorn

18th September 2019 Emma Rawlings Video

Tony shows Emma the sweetcorn he’s been growing and describes some of the problems he’s had. For more videos, visit the Kitchen Garden YouTube channel at the link below: www.youtube.com/kitchengardenmagazine…

Podcast 62: Veg at a glance – Sweetcorn

2nd September 2019 Rachel Atkins Podcast

The Kitchen Garden Magazine Podcast – packed full of hints, tips and advice from the team. It’s hard to beat the flavour of sweetcorn freshly picked from the plot and cooked straight away. Once tried, forever smitten, says writer Tony Flanagan. Read by Rachel Atkins.…

Celebrate Edible Britain for National Gardening Week 2019

12th February 2019 Steve Ott News

Encouraging everyone to grow-your-own is the theme of this year’s National Gardening Week (29 April–5 May 2019) The nation’s biggest celebration of gardening returns for 2019 from Monday 29 April to Sunday 5 May 2019 as the Royal Horticultural Society (RHS) encourages everyone to get involved in grow-your-own. The theme for this year is Edible Britain, with the RHS calling…

Underground internet

14th May 2018 Steve Ott News

Plants ‘talk’ to each other using a complex underground communication system, according to a new study Plants ‘talk’ to each other using a complex underground communication system, according to a new study by biologists at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences in Uppsala. Previously, scientists have shown that when plants brush against their neighbours, they alter their growth strategies. Trees…

CHILLI CORN BREAD

2nd July 2017 Steve Ott Recipes

This corn bread is naturally gluten free and tastes great served with soup or stew. SERVES 6 Preparation time: 15 minutes | Cooking time: 30 minutes • 200g/7oz polenta • 285ml/10fl oz buttermilk • 25g/1oz butter • 1 red chilli, deseeded and finely chopped • 1 tsp baking powder • ¼ tsp bicarbonate of soda • 50g/1¾oz frozen sweetcorn, defrosted…

This month in Kitchen Garden – June 2017

25th April 2017 Pauline Hawkins Latest issue

Turn up the taste! This is is packed with hints and tips on watering and feeding to improve the flavour of your crops. It’s time to start sowing those tender crops for growing outside or in the polytunnel and greenhouse. Whether you like to grow sweetcorn, courgettes, cucumbers – or all three – we have it covered for you this…

TUNA SALAD

12th April 2017 Steve Ott Recipes

A colourful finely diced salad – ensuring you get a bit of everything in every bite! Eat it as it is, or use it as a sandwich filling. SERVES 4 Preparation time: 15 minutes | Cooking time: 10 minutes FOR THE SALAD: • 2 tins tuna (dolphin friendly) • 1 red bell pepper, diced • 1 tin black beans, drained…

VIDEO: Sowing Sweetcorn in Rootrainers

16th April 2016 Steve Ott Tips and Advice, Video

Soil temperature might still be too cold for sowing outside, so why not use rootrainers and germinate them in a greenhouse in mid-April? Thank you to Crowders.co.uk for supplying us with these great Haxnicks Rootrainers for filming! You can purchase their Deep Rootrainers and Rapid Rootrainers for just £7.99 via their website now. …

Handy Hacks for your Garden

12th April 2016 Steve Ott Tips and Advice, Video

We’ve teamed up with the friendly folk at Crowders.co.uk to bring you regular garden hack videos! Turn your average milk bottle into a watering can… Get recycling – sow sweetcorn in toilet roll tubes! Re-purpose old bean canes and pegs to help mark out your plot! View all our videos on our YouTube channel! …