Your Weekly Electronic Gardening Guide
Practical Horticulture for Busy People.
Sweet Corn
About This Plant...
Family:
Poaceae
Genus and species:
Zea mays var. rugosa
Growing Season:
summer
Indoor Sowing...
Time needed to reach transplant size:
2-4 weeks
When to transplant to garden:
0 to 2 weeks after last spring frost
Outdoor Sowing...
When to sow outdoors:
0 to 2 weeks after last spring frost
Other Sowing Guidelines...
Approx. germination time:
4-12 days
Germination temp.:
60-95 degrees F.
Sowing depth:
1 inch
Days to maturity:
60-100 days
Transplanting Guidelines...
Spacing between plants:
8-12 inches
Spacing between rows:
30-42 inches
Growing On...
Pests:
European corn borers, corn earworms, flea beetles, earwigs, Japanese beetles, corn rootworms, seed corn maggots, wireworms, aphids, raccoons, birds
Diseases:
bacterial wilt, corn smut, corn leaf blight, maize dwarf mosaic virus
Harvest:
when the ears are completely filled out; a kernel will show milky white liquid when pierced with your fingernail
Growing tips:
supersweet varieties require isolation
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