u/wedloualf

So this year I realised the variety of corn I've grown is actually a 'baby corn' variety, however the cobs are not as small as I imagined - yet not proper full size cobs either.

How would you cook and eat this? It's not chonky enough to be prepared like normal corn but also nowhere near as tiny as the baby corn you see in supermarkets!

EDIT: further research has led to the discovery that I've accidentally overgrown my baby corn and should have harvested it when it was immature! Another allotment lesson...

Anyone else?! My allotment seems to think it's October, I'm going to blame this insane weather...

I live in Bristol, and we've obviously like most others in the UK had proper drought weather for months now. I've noticed loads of my fellow allotmenters are down on their plots twice a day in some cases, hefting watering cans back and forth for hours it seems.

Am I in the minority in just having mostly left mine to it? I've been watering newly planted out cabbages and cauliflowers, as well as a bit here and there for the courgettes until they were established. Maybe I'm trusting instinct too much here but my plants are healthy - beans, courgettes, squashes, cukes, corn, cabbages are all properly going for it now. I don't have potatoes this year and to be fair I'd be watering them if I did.

Thoughts from others - trust your instinct and only water plants when they seem like they need it, or religiously water on a daily basis in this weather?

Posting here because the last stickied weekly thread was in mid July...

Message me if you want to take them off my hands and I can let you know where to pick up from.

I've been trying to grow these for four years, but always suspected they weren't suited to our climate as they never lived past infancy. Thanks to this year's early heatwaves this one has finally thrived and I'm really pleased - they're much less watery and more tasty than your ordinary courgette, and the flower is incredibly robust and very much part of the fruit, so I'll be using these to experiment with fried courgette flowers as they're normally a bit crap with normal ones. The slices are also pretty, like little cogs. Never thought I'd be so excited over a courgette, and yet... Anyone else grow them?

Thought I'd seek some expert opinions - my other two plants in the same bed are doing fine but this guy has gone really yellow in comparison. What should I do to rectify?

Already eaten about a kilo of strawbs, made three jars of jam and harvested another 1.3kg this evening, and it'll keep going for a good few weeks still if it's anything like last year. Not sure what I'm doing to deserve such a bounty, but it's obviously the right thing! All from a 1m x 2m patch.