SWEET CORN

 

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Sweet corn

1. There is one strand of silk per grain of corn.

2. There are about 800 kernels on each ear of corn.

3. An ear of corn always has an even number of rows.

4. Sweet corn is pollinated by wind. That’s why plants are usually grown close together: even a light breeze can carry the pollen from tassel to tassel.

5. What about the belief you should set the water to boil before you harvest sweet corn? Heirloom varieties, especially, get their sweetness from the su (sugar) gene and their sugars start to turn to starch only 30 minutes after harvest.

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