Q. Last year, I tried to grow sweet corn in my new garden. I had tons of weeds around the narrow rows. The corn ended up stunted and the ears never developed on many plants. A. Sweet corn can be ...

Is there any vegetable that screams Ohio summer more than sweet corn eaten on the cob? Some gardeners might argue that the tomato is the more popular vegetable grown in Ohio, and it is the state fruit ...

Sweet corn harvested fresh from the home garden and cooked soon afterward is one of life’s great treats. If you have never had that experience, now is the time to plant sweet corn in the garden. Sweet ...

As warmer weather approaches, we conjure up images associated with the upcoming season — longer days, swimming, snow cones, barbecues … and sweet corn. Sweet corn is a warm-season garden staple along ...

Iowa is the nation’s top corn grower, with more than 13 million acres devoted to the vegetable, but some Iowans are planting their first small crops of -sweet- corn this spring. Aaron Steil, consumer ...

A group of scientists intentionally planted corn misfits to perpetuate the wide array of genetic variation in the Midwest’s ...

Sweet corn is a perfect food for summer, but behind that simple pleasure is decades of plant breeding, market research, and ...

The UF/IFAS Hastings Agriculture Extension Center (HAEC) accomplished a challenging feat and grew sweet corn during this wet fall weather. Two phases (0.84 acres each) of eight different commercial ...