SWEET CORN OR MAIZE
FOR WARM LOCALITIES
In warm localities, sweet corn may be grown quite .successfully. This crop requires rich, well-manured ground and a sunny position. The seed is sown in rows three inches deep and about two or three feet between the rows, al-, lowing three or four inches between the plants. . When the plants are well up thin out to twelve inches or more apart. Keep the surface soil open by frequent hoeing or raking. All side shoots and suckers should bo removedabout a month after sowing, and the- plants be earthed up in the same way: as potatoes, but not more than about. ; six inches up the stalks. It is advisable to plant-in short rows side by
side rather than in one long row, as -this affords "-protection. The cobs should be picked when quite green; as soon' as the tuft of fibres nt the top: begins to wither they are ready. • ;
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Evening Post, Volume CXVIII, Issue 106, 1 November 1934, Page 22
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