Corn on the cob is a perennial family favourite and really fresh corn has a unique sweet flavour. Corn is a fast growing hungry plant up to 2m high but will usually provide small fruit even if conditions are not ideal. In temperate zones plant in Spring for a late summer harvest.
- Type
- Exotic
- Maintenance
- High
- Lifecycle
- Annual
- Container
- Zero
- Size
- Small shrubs 0.5 - 3 metres
- Root size
- Less than 2.5m (safe)
- Foliage
- Evergreen
- Zones
- Moist tropical, Semi-arid with summer rain, Moist temperate with hot summers, Arid interior, Semi-arid with winter rain, Moist temperate with warm summers, Winter rains with dry summers
- Soils
- Loam
- Regions
- Edible plants
- Shade levels
- Full sun
- Flowering seasons
- Spring