Corn Snow Baby

Corn Snow Baby

Sweet Corn Snobaby is good for stir-fries or popping. Perfect to use as tender, sweet baby corn in stir-fry or Thai curries. Leave the cobs on the plants to grow to maturity (approximately 20cm), then harvest and let dry to create corn for 'popping'.
Sweet corn Snobaby will produce 4-5 cobs per plant.

Plant corn in spring and early summer, once the daytime temperatures are always above 15 degrees Celsius. Add lots of manure and compost into the bed.  It does well if planted after peas as it benefits from the residual nitrogen. Sweetcorn needs a consistently moist soil to produce good juicy cobs, so mulch well with Lucerne and water regularly.

Plant sweetcorn in a block of short rows, rather than long thin lines, as it is wind pollinated and should be planted fairly close together. Feed at fortnightly intervals with  Maxicrop liquid fertiliser. Hilling up the soil around the seedlings as they grow will help to increase root development and stabilise the stalks.

Pick your corn when the silks turn brown and the kernels have a milky liquid when pierced. If the liquid is clear the corn is under ripe.

Height 2m x 45cm