October brings our first harvest of home grown sweet corn and melons. The melon in a cantaloupe type called "Edonis F1" that we grew in our cold frame. We only got two small fruit, but they were fantastically sweet and perfectly formed. Last year our sweet corn failed to ripen and we just ate it as baby corn, but this year the warmer weather and sowing it a little earlier has resulted in full, ripe, delicious cobs. Sweet corn is a crop that is especially good to grow yourself, as it is at its sweetest the moment it is picked. Once it is off the plant the sugar levels drop as the starch levels rise progressively, so the longer it is off the plant before it is eaten the less sweet it will be. We pick it and have it in the pot within minutes. It really is the sweetest sweet corn we have ever eaten!
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