by Dickinson Harris

Created on: June 26, 2010

Growing your own corn can sometimes seem a tough experience. In local stores whether grocery or just random corner stores you always see these long roots with corn in the middle and you do wonder if they are easy to grow.

You begin by having seeds and most gardening centres and sometimes grocery stores depending on how big they are will have them. Always go for a brand name you know because cheap and cheerful does result in poor results.

You buy expensive items you get the better products at the end of it all. The seeds are then important because this is the part where the problem can develop. You have to get yourself either a large field of a place which has deep soil.

I would recommend having a pot which is long in width and quite deep in depth. You then need to put inside soil but before you place the seeds inside water this soil for a few days each morning and night and make sure when the seeds are added the soil is damp and moist.

After a few days you need to add the seeds and the seeds are extremely small. They sometimes can be lost with a few moments of silly behaviour so you need to remain relaxed when doing the next procedure.

You then take the corn seeds and usually five or six seeds together are needed and you leave a gap for the next seeds of around 3 inches and then you place the next set of seeds. You continue doing this until the length of the pot has been finished or you run out of seeds altogether.

Your next challenge is to find a location to store the sweetcorn and the best way to do this is by two routes. You either find a greenhouse which generates plenty of heat each day to help the growing process or you find a field which is not going to be disturbed by animals which tend to destroy planting.

After the first 24 hours you are ready to feed the seeds and usually just enough water to make the soil damp and not flooded. If you fill the soil up to much where the soil is water logged you are going to ruin the whole process. You take time and do this once in the morning and once at night and regardless of the temperature outside the greenhouse (if you took this route) you just continue this method. Usually within 2 weeks you notice these large stems which are very easy to break off but you need to avoid doing this as the first few weeks pass the stems begin to grow and they are very thick and lovely in a rich vibrant green texture.

The water levels now need to double up so you need to do give more water than ever before and remain vigilant.

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