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Sweet Corn Popcorn Seeds

Price: €2.59

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Sweet Corn Popcorn Seeds - Irish Plants Direct

These are a special corn grown for making popcorn an excellent way to get kids to eat vegetables.

Harvest when the corn is yellow and soft towards late summer.

Seed Qty 5gram

Sow March - May

Germination 10 - 14 days

Loam or sandy soil that's acidic or neutral

Harvest August - September

Companion Plants Beans, cucumber, squash, pumpkins

Do not plant with celery or tomato

Harvest the cobs when they are fully developed and before the turn yellow.

A good source of Vitamin A, B3 and C.

Use for popcorn

Dry the kernels in a warm aereated place or in the oven on a very low heat

It's essential that Sweetcorn is grown in full sun which is sheltered from winds. Good drainage and plenty of humus is needed to prevent the ground from not drying out.

Dig the soil in winter and add fertiliser 2 weeks before planting.

Water well in dry weather.

Sow indoors between March - May in 7.5cm pots 2 seeds per pot and place on a sunny window sill keeping warm and moist thin the plants by removing the weaker plant when they reach 2cm tall.

Gradually harden off the plants and plant out in May - June after all risk of frosts have past.

Alternatively sow direct outdoors in June planting 2 seeds 1.5cm deep and 40cm apart in blocks when the seedlings emerge remove the weakest plant.

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