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When and How to Harvest Corn
06.06.2023 - 17:02 / gardenerspath.com / Laura Ojeda Melchor
When and How to Harvest CornCorn gets a bad rap these days. It’s in everything from breakfast cereal to dog food to skin care products, so how can it be healthy?
Well, my friends, it is.
Especially sweet corn, which is loaded with fiber, vitamin C, folate, thiamine, magnesium, and potassium, all of which are essential to human health.
It’s the processed products you have to watch out for, not garden-grown deliciousness. Corn is, in fact, a whole grain!
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So, say you planted some nutritious maize.
You’ve sown the seeds and watched them grow from cute green seedlings all the way into massive, four- to six-foot-tall stalks, depending on the variety you planted.
The tassels pollinated the silks with ease. Ears have developed into gorgeous cobs.
If it’s sweet corn variety you’re growing, you dream of peeling back the husk and taking a huge bite of fresh, utterly delicious kernels.
Yes, you can eat sweet corn – considered a vegetable in most cases – raw. Yes, I literally just learned that.
Or maybe you’re growing dent corn, which is classified as a grain, to make homegrown tortillas. Or popcorn for your own delicious poppable cobs.
Whatever variety you chose, you’re ready to harvest… you think.
But you’re not sure. How can you tell when the maize is ready? Are there any signs to look out for? And if it is ready, how do you get the ears off the stalks?
In this guide, I’ll answer all these questions.
Ready to harvest? Let’s go!
The Five Types of CornBefore we get started, you should know that there are five main types of maize that gardeners grow:
Dent (Zea mays var. indentata), also called field corn, is typically used to feed
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