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What is the smallest pot I could reasonably expect to grow sweetcorn in ?
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.If you're thinking of growing sweetcorn indoors you'll potentially have a problem because it's wind-pollinated:
http:// www.rhs .org.uk /advice /grow-y our-own /vegeta bles/sw eetcorn
However, as that page suggests, growing mini sweetcorn might well provide a solution:
http:// www.mar shalls- seeds.c o.uk/sw eetcorn -mini-p op-seed s-pid25 79.html
That page recommends 8"/20cm spacing (and specifically mentions growing indoors in pots), so a pot of around that size would probably be ideal.
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However, as that page suggests, growing mini sweetcorn might well provide a solution:
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That page recommends 8"/20cm spacing (and specifically mentions growing indoors in pots), so a pot of around that size would probably be ideal.
I'd say that the pots would have to be pretty big to avoid them getting blown over by the wind, even if its a dwarf variety that your growing.
As I recall . the spacing's suggested on the packets state 18 inches apart, so therefore only one plant in an 18'' pot and arranged in blocks rather than rows, to aid polination.
As I recall . the spacing's suggested on the packets state 18 inches apart, so therefore only one plant in an 18'' pot and arranged in blocks rather than rows, to aid polination.