Spade Work : From Plot to Plate

The Vegetable Song

I kid you not but did you know there is a song called The Purple Sprouting Brocoli song. To hear a clip by the Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band go to BBC Radio 4  Listen Again page and click on Midweek programme for 12/12/2007 and fast forward to minute 40 or try this link PSB Song.

Anyone else have vegetable songs? I've the lyrics to Guy Clark's, Homegrown Tomatoes, and there's one I heard ages ago which went something like 'There's Bud the Spud from the bright red mud going down the highway smiling...'

I suppose if I searched YouTube I'd find some clips.............................

The Inhibited Gardener

I'm still puzzled why my back garden corn failed while the corn planted on the allotment (same variety, tougher conditions - no water and a thin sandy soil) did OK .

I had put it down to lack of water but I always think of corn growing in hot, dry conditions.

Some time ago Hanna wrote  about growth inhibitors in the seed husks of sunflowers. Clearing the corn yesterday it struck me that the difference between the back garden corn and the allotment was the former was next to the sunflower bed.

Could this be why it failed?

But the time the corn was setting, the sunflowers wouldn't have been producing seed or husks. I wonder if they secrete the growth inhibitor any other way?