hello I just want to show you how my sweet corn is getting on because now it's the beginning of June you wouldn't believe it because of the weather I have to admit a pert and sweet corn is is tender is a tender vegetable so it means that it doesn't cope very well in the frost so you have to wait until all the frost in your area is gone and you can usually investigate this online so putting where you live and hopefully it will give you the last frost date and but I'm in the south of England so any tender crops can go out from the beginning of June so I've got some of my sweet corn out but I just wanted to show you the rest of them these are four that I grew in a pot and all four of them came up so I was really impressed with them these are called Swift I've never grown Swift before I've grown lots of different other varieties but I'm going to show you how to plant them out in the garden now when you do don't plant them in rows you have to plant them in a block so this is where your times table comes in very very useful work out how many plants you've got and then work out into what block you can do that in I've got 24 sweet corn plants here so I've done six by four okay so just you've got to do your sums okay so I'm just going to show you how to plant them in the ground right now I'm going to try and take these out of the pot i I can't take the label out because there's a hole in the label and there's a root grown straight through the label and just there can you see it I hope you can let me make sure I put it in can you see it's going straight through the whole day and hopefully you can see on here that there are some really really lovely roots grown on the bottom so what we need to do is we need to break these apart and be fairly careful with them okay it may sound a bit cruel as you're ripping them apart but they should come apart fairly easily okay and then hopefully once I've got them apart I can retrieve that label okay Oh doing the I'll just do these two and just show you these two oh there we are so they've all got nice root systems on the bottom of them so they're perfect to put in the ground right now when you put them in the soil you need to plant them about a foot apart from each other so take a lovely big hole a nice deep hole because remember these will get very very tall so they need and support from the soil okay and when you put them in you can plant them down to their first leaf here if you want to so in it goes bring the soil back give it a good push down and then water it in and then protect it from the slugs the slugs will love these so if you want to keep them then you have to protect them from the slugs I'm not sure if you can see what I've got here and it's a butternut squash I'll just explain what I'm doing with these right now the butternut squash I've got here and I've so I've planted them at about two foot intervals in amongst the sweet corn now they'll wiggle their way around and they'll grow quite happily with the sweet corn there won't be any major competition with them by the time these butternut squash have started to travel the sweet corn will be nice and tall they create a ground cover which also actually helps to stop the weeds coming through you can also if you want to which I'm not going to do but you can plant your runner beans or you're climbing French beans up the sweet corn and that combination of all those three is called three sisters I'm sure I will do it one year but I'm just not doing it at the moment so at the moment I've got the two sisters if you want to put it that way but you can grow cause it's in between the sweet corns marrows and any cuckoo bits that you want to so you know pumpkins as well if you want but butternut squash are a great one to grow in between your sweet corn right well I'll just water the sweet corn in and I'll put the other three in as well and I have retrieved my label so I'm very happy about that um and um I shall see you again soon