My Garden.

Your idea for seating should look fab can't wait to see it

 

With all those comments Freddy, NOW do you believe what I told you?:thumb::thumb::D

 

Looks great Freddy

 

Fantastic Freddy, whay more can I say. Im gona add to you rep power, well deserved 02

 

Ahh, now I remember your garden, yes, agreed, looks bloomin fantastic:thmb:

 

Hello again folks. Herewith is a pic taken in the more exotic area of my garden. Now then, call me crazy, if you look closely, you'll see something that looks a bit like grass but is in fact.....sweet corn ! While we were away on holiday in Kefalonia, virtually on the beach we saw some grasses that we both thought looked a bit like sweet corn. Well, I guess I'll have to wait and see how it turns out, but I reckon it might just work. And who knows, might even get a few cobs too !




I'll share some more pics as time goes on

Cheers...freddy.

 

A lot of hard work there freddy.. But worth the effort and many thanks for sharing.
robert

 

Hi folks. Thanks for the nice comments. It's a funny thing, I seem to get more enjoyment out of actually doing the creative/labouring part of it rather than sitting down and looking at it. Is that normal ?
I'm just looking forward to when it's a lot more established, it still looks 'bitty', if you know what I mean.
Having said that, every day I go out there and see something has happened, I love it :D
Cheers...freddy.

 

Looking Good Freddy, Only one thing wrong, Not enough Pics! Come on show us more

 

Ok Ok...geez ! :D
Thing is, to my eyes it's hardly changed. None of the plants are what you might call 'specimens', but OK, I'll post some more pics shortly.
BTW, no comments about the sweetcorn ?
Cheers...freddy.

 

"BTW, no comments about the sweetcorn"

Only just got here mate, those of us at the back are a bit out of puff!

I expect you know all this, but they want to be about 18" apart and in a block for pollination - 3 x 3 absolute minimum, 4 x 3 would be better, larger blocks (don't have to be square) better still. You may be able to "assist" by gentle shaking of the plants to dislodge the pollen.

But either way they are nice looking plants! Beware of height - depending on variety. Some of the F1 varieties designed for this country - i.e. a short season - aren't very tall, but the conventional ones can be. I've got some Mini-pop (those silly little unripe corn that kids love) and they don't need pollinating, so the whole block thing doesn't apply. I've got a few in the greenhouse which will probably hit the roof in the next week or 10 days :(

 

Hi Kristen. Yeah, I know about the block thingy and the pollination wassname. They're really only planted for effect, and if they get big, so much the better :thumb: I have a plot up the road from me where my spuds, onions and sweetcorn are growing. I have 20 sweetcorn plants (5x4) so that should be around 40 cobs ? I haven't grown sweetcorn in years (in fact only grew it once) and my memory fails me as to how many cobs one might expect.
Cheers...freddy.