when and how do you detassel sweet corn?

Question

I have a small home garden and would like to know the proper way to handle my sweet corn.

Answer 1

Morons! Don't even know the difference between silk and tassel! With help from the two above you'd get no where. Anyways, the only time you need to remove the tassel from your corn stalk is if you are raising more that one variety say Silver Queen + Butter-Sugar and you want to avoid cross pollination. If you hand pollinate your ears this is the time to do it, remove the tassels. This is done to which ever matures first. You can see this by shaking the stalk gently if yellow dust falls from the tassel it's ready, That's the pollen. I do three kinds personally, the above two and a few rows of Indian corn for my wife's thanksgiving and Halloween crafts. So I have to do it twice. Good luck!

Answer 2

After you pick the corn ears from the stalk, "shuck" it and get all of the silks off that you can, then wash the ears. Freeze the corn in Ziploc bags. When you are ready to eat the corn, try getting the smaller silks out while the corn is still frozen---it's alot easier!

Answer 3

You detassel your sweet corn after you have picked it and are preping it for cooking. It's hard to get all of the silk out of the ears, but be patient and you'll get the majority in the trash.

Answer 4

I agree with Halton except I wouldn't have called the other 2 morons.