How Do you know when sweetcorn is ripe and ready to pick -

The Easy Ways to tell Sweetcorn is Ripe


There are clues that your sweetcorn is ready to pick and these are the ways to tell -


1. The tassels of the corn on the cob have turned brown, this is the tassels that show at the end of the leaves (inside the leaves away from the light the strands stay a light colour.


You can also see that the cob is a fully formed corn on the cob shape.


2. If you peel the leaves back gently and just a little way 


(with the sweetcorn still attached to the plant so that it can grow on if it is not yet ready to harvest) 


press a seed kernel with the tip of your fingernail, so that a little of the liquid inside it oozes out.  If the liquid that comes from the corn seed is creamy in colour then the sweetcorn is ready to eat.  


If the liquid is watery looking - leave the sweetcorn cob on the plant it is not yet ripe.


If the texture of the liquid is thicker and almost doughy then it is a bit over - ripe but you can still eat it.