Wednesday, March 18, 2009

Baby corn Crops


Baby corn is regularly route and sold in cans or jars. Just crop some of your sweet corn early. Field, regular, sweet improved or super sweet corn selections work great for baby corn. You don't need to buy the fancy stuff from the store.Corn cherish so quickly that appropriates harvest is essential. In an extra day or two, the corn can grow larger than you might like for baby corn, giving a tougher and larger ear than might be good in a blend fry dish or salad.Baby corn ears are best croped when they are two to four inches long and a third to two-thirds of an inch in diameter, whether full-grown with a regular or close spacing pattern.
To produce baby corn at the great time takes practice. You might need to yield a few at different stage each day for a few days to learn precisely when the baby corn is at the perfect stage for you. Start by harvesting ears where silk appears that day. Each ear may reach this stage at a different time on each plant, so you'll have to watch your plants closely.Refrigerate baby corn, with husks on, right away after harvest if you don't use it right away. Baby corn can be pickled or canned, or blanched and frozen.
A few seed group offer special baby corn varieties, grown solely for baby corn. These varieties are just as big as regular corn plants, but may have more ears per plant. They are not dwarf corn plants. If baby corn varieties were allowed to mature, they would look like a characteristic medium-sized ear of field or sweet corn.If you want to grow a patch of corn specifically for baby corn, you can save space by planting corn seed much closer together than usual. Sow each seed about four inches apart in the row. Keep the row spacing to the normal 30 to 36 inches apart.Baby corn has fewer pest problems than full-sized ears of corn. Corn earworms and cucumber beetles generally do their damage later, when the corn ear is filling out and maturing.Baby corn is has not been widely commercially produced in the United States because it has to be harvested and processed by hand. But small local farms are starting to produce baby corn for local fresh markets.

Fantasy Football

0 Comments:

Post a Comment

Subscribe to Post Comments [Atom]

<< Home