Sweetcorn 'Swift'

Delicious and incredibly sweet!
Just £14.99
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Key Features

  • An award-winning, vigorous sweetcorn with fabulous rich flavour.
  • Bred to be Xtra-Tender©, producing large cobs that are sweet and juicy.
  • Tasty cobs up to 20cm long packed full of tender, golden-yellow kernels.
  • High in fibre and a good source of vitamins, minerals, and antioxidants.
  • Supplied as 12 plug plants, ready for growing on or planting.
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Description

A vigorous Xtra-Tender© variety, ‘Swift’ has been specifically bred to give incredibly sweet and succulent cobs which grow to 20cm long and are packed with sunshine yellow, mouth-watering kernels.

‘Swift’ cobs have particularly thin-skinned kernels, so they are delicious eaten raw and have a wonderful super-sweet crunchiness, or they can be cooked whole. Just remove the husks and boil the cobs for a few minutes or wrap them in foil for the barbeque. Sweetcorn is rich in fibre and a good source of vitamins, minerals, and antioxidants. The cobs are best eaten straight after picking but will keep for a few days in the fridge and they freeze very well too.

Sweetcorn thrives in a sunny position, and ‘Swift’ will be ready to harvest from August. However, it can be picked as baby corn when the ears are about 10cm long.

Fully deserving its coveted RHS Award of Garden Merit, you can be sure that this is a proven garden performer, guaranteed to be suitable for UK gardeners at every level of experience. You can therefore plant this in the garden with confidence and enjoy a top-quality harvest.

Supplied as 12 plug plants, ready for growing on or planting. Growing to 2m, ready to harvest from August.

Top Tips
  • For best flavour and nutrients, eat sweetcorn as soon as possible after picking before the sugar turns to starch. Don’t add salt to the water if boiling as it will toughen the kernels.
  • Ideal for freezing.
Care Information

How to grow climbing Sweetcorn

  • Sweetcorn is wind pollinated so it should be planted in blocks, 40cm (16in) apart to maximise pollination. You can help this process by collecting pollen from the tassels at the top of the plants and sprinkling it onto the hairy tufts of silk on the ears. The best pollen is shed in late morning.
  • Good pollination will result in cobs packed full of kernels.
  • Sweetcorn develops quickly once pollinated, ready to pick just a couple of weeks after pollination, when the silks have turned brown in August.
Delivery Information

Please allow us 3-5 working days to dispatch your order. Pre-ordered items will be sent as soon as possible after the date quoted and we'll generally ship your entire order with your pre-ordered items. When your order is dispatched, we'll send you another email with details of how to track it.

Most orders are sent on a fully-tracked courier service with Yodel. To avoid perishable items being stuck at depots and deteriorating, no signature is required, and our courier is asked to leave your order in a safe place on your property.

We'll send a tracking link when we dispatch your order, so you know when its due to arrive. Please note, once delivered we cannot be held responsible for loss or theft from your property. If you have any specific delivery instructions, please let us know - there's an option to enter a short message for the courier at the checkout.

Smaller, lighter, single-item orders may be sent through the post with Royal Mail - in which case no tracking is available.

Our experienced nursery team will always send your plants nursery fresh in the perfect condition to thrive when you plant them, so although most plants are very tough and will not be affected by all but the most extreme frosts or heatwaves, we avoid dispatching the most perishable plants if extreme weather is forecast, or over Bank Holiday weekends.

Please note, we cannot guarantee delivery on a certain day or time. Delivery to outlying postcode areas may take 1-2 days longer, dependent on your location.

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