Sweet Corn is High in Early June

Kandy Korn (despite the silly name) looks fantastic in early June

With a goal of getting three harvests of sweet corn this year, I seeded the corn directly into the garden in early April. Despite the turn to cooler weather (the typical “May gray” “June gloom” stuff), the corn is growing splendidly.

This particular round of corn is Kandy Korn, which I wrote about last year. It’s technically a mid-season variety, preferring the heat to the cool of spring, but I had an open packet saved from last year, so it went in the ground first.

Good thing too, because the subsequent planting of Lucious, a bi-color corn, has been a complete disaster.

The Lucious sweet corn has been a low-germination and insect disaster

Despite planting four full rows, poor germination and insects left me with just six scraggly plants. I’ve since done another planting but I’m getting the same spotty germination rate of the last round. Maybe it’s the seed (though they’re new), or maybe it’s the beds I’ve chosen to plant them in. Either way, if I don’t see more spouting in the next week, I’ll swap them out for a different variety.

At least in the meantime we have lots of tasty corn that’ll be ready by the Fourth of July.