Which Sweetcorn?

Hi,im looking for a varitiy to plant at the allotment,sweet and on the larger size cob if possible,any recommendations please ..Thanks

 

Im sure thats the one i bought last yr,sounds familiar,i will check my ebay from premier seeds.
I never got to plant them out cos of work or weather :( x

 

I grew sweetcorn last year for the first time in years.
I grew F1 Sundance from Suttons.
Each plant had two good sized cobs.

It grew like crazy, no looking back and was ready in August, if I remember correctly, so much better than the old varieties I remember struggling with.

 

First time ever growing it for me, got lark and swift..?

 

I can thoroughly recommend Swift. I've grown them for the past two summers with very good results. The flavour is excellent too.

 

Thanks Trunky, they'll both be sown anyways Is it true you shouldn't put two different types next to each other, I read it interferes with flavour/cross pollination?

 

I cant see how pollination with another variety can be a problem.
The cobs will still be of the variety grown, surely??
It would only matter if you intended growing on the resulting seed

 

Hmm..
"resulting in ears of corn with a tough or mushy texture, bland flavor, or poor storage quality."

Can I Plant Different Varieties of Corn Together in the Garden?

 

Sounds like a load of old boll*cks to me, but then what do I know.

Do you actually think a "real" person can determine the difference between super sweets, sugar enhanced, standard varieties?

I'd like to get someone who knows about genetics to get involved as it sounds like rubbish to me.

 

Haha.. Ahh nah, probably not no. It's popped up a few times when I'm looking at corn.. being young and naive I'm trying not take everything I read at face value so have to question it

 

Oh dont believe me, I'm the sceptical type.
I just think it's probably a bit overdone when it comes to the ordinary person growing a bit of sweetcorn.
Maybe if you were growing next to a field of maize ??

The thing that just seems wrong to me is this, if I grow apples, it doesn't matter what kind of apple tree pollinates it, if the variety is for eg, a cox, the apple will be a cox, only the resulting seeds will be affected.
Now I know with corn that maybe slightly different, but I'm struggling to see why?

 

Did a google to see if I could find out, nothing about other varieties affecting it that I found.

But I did find out that the closer they are planted together, the less cobs they produce.

 

Yeah I get what your saying but isn't it the seeds we're eating? I'm thinking too much into this, sod it I'll just grow both