Thursday was a better day than the last few days but nothing special. The rain that we had, fell overnight and early morning. It brightened up as the day went along and felt mild but there was always the threat of more rain from some dark ominous clouds that were about all day.
We picked our first two sweet corn cobs this week and although the tassels were a golden brown the corn in one of the cobs wasn't ripe and the other contained a rather disappointing amount of kernels.
We seem to have waited forever this summer for our sweet corn to produce any ripe cobs. I think we can blame the cool and very dry conditions again for a poor crop from what is normally one of our banker vegetables. I've had a look back at last year’s sweet corn crop and by this time last year the same varieties had yielded 66 cobs and as far as I can remember they were all well filled and ripe.
This is our sweet corn harvested on 5th September last year. It's a far cry from the two cobs harvested so far this year. Certainly the seeds were sown at similar dates in both years. Unfortunately this year's crop has suffered from both lack of rain and cool temperatures. At least our runner beans are now in full production giving us masses of beans which we are freezing to make up for our sweet corn failure.
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