Kitchen Garden

QUESTION TIME

SWEET NOTHINGS

This year I have been trying to grow sweetcorn. However, once they are about 10cm tall the seedlings die. I am germinating them indoors under grow lights, along with many other vegetable seedlings. There is an infestation of fungus/fruit flies but they haven’t affected any other seedlings.

Lucian Backler, Uckfield

EMMA SAYS: Sweetcorn should not be too difficult to germinate and establish. It is difficult to say what may be the cause of the problem here, but it seems most likely that

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