Baby corn ears are best harvested when they are 2 to 4 inches long and one-thirds to two-thirds inch in diameter, whether grown with a regular or close spacing pattern. Refrigerate baby corn, with husks on, immediately after harvest if you don't use it right away. Baby corn can be pickled or canned, or blanched and frozen. A few seed companies 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 typical medium-sized ear of field or sweet corn, said Myers. It 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 4 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.
Home gardeners can harvest baby corn and mature sweet corn ears from the same plant, said Myers. Most any sweet corn variety will work well as baby corn. According to information from the University of Minnesota, starchy feed corn, with a tendency to grow multiple ears, also works well harvested as baby corn. This is because the sugar in the cobs starts to turn to starch the moment the cobs are cut. To get the best from your cobs cut them as close as possible to when you are going to cook them.
It is not unknown for Americans famous for their love of corn to take a saucepan of boiling water with them to plunge the cobs into the moment they cut their corn; if you do this, please be careful! Plunging the freshly-cut cobs, husk and all, into a bucket of water and then barbecuing them is also a way to maintain that super-sweet flavour — no need to wrap in foil as the wet husk will protect the kernels and as the outer layers char they will give a fantastic smoky flavour.
For something completely different, and to maximise crop space, try growing sweetcorn using the Three Sisters method. Mid-season tendersweet variety. Produces medium-sized well-filled cobs of thin-skinned kernels. Tolerates cooler growing conditions well.
F1 Hybrid. Available Now Supplied as a packet of approximately 40 seeds. Four or five pale yellow babycorns are produced on each plant. Vigorous in habit and easy to grow with no pollination concerns. Available Now Supplied as a packet of approximately 30 seeds. It's simple: "Grow sweet corn and harvest the ears within three days of seeing the silks emerge," Miles told HuffPost. Corn silks are those hair-like fibers that emerge from the tip of an ear of corn.
They may be a pain to remove when husking corn on the cob, but they're a big help when it comes to knowing when to harvest baby corn. Now that we're sufficiently educated on its origins, we're gonna go ahead and add baby corn into every stir fry from here on out. They're too adorable and delicious not to. News U. Politics Joe Biden Congress Extremism. Special Projects Highline. HuffPost Personal Video Horoscopes. Follow Us. Terms Privacy Policy.
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