Source: HICKORY RECORD, 8/2/17


This growing season will be one of the best years for sweet corn production in recent history.  Unlike field corn, sweet corn is harvested before the kernel matures,  about 18 to 22 days after all of the silks (those fine white threads that you see coming out of the developing ear) have emerged. Keep in mind that each of those individual silks will develop into a kernel on the ear of corn but only if it pollinated by a pollen grain from a corn tassel…

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