hi there all sum silly questions so i dont get to much produceif i plant 1 water melon seed will i get 1 water meon or lots of flowers then lots of melons on 1 plant

I think they grow on a vine,and you have to stop them when you get two or three fruit growing but you have mail and femail flowers and only the femails develop fruit,,

sweetcorn is wind pollinated and should be planted out in blocks of plants to ensure good pollination. Is it melons that if grown in a greenhouse need to be pollinated by hand? seem to remember doing that some years ago for sweet melon

One seed = several melons. As Cliffo says, I think you need to 'stop' the plants at a couple of fruits, as otherwise you might get loads of tiny fruit that are slow to mature. They need lots of warmth - bit early to sow now I would have thought and you'll need to have them in a greenhouse in summer.

Pretty pony BTW :-)

Re sweetcorn - I grew some once and they germinate and starting growing almost over night - so don't sow them until all danger of frost has passed and probably best to sow them direct outside. If you do them indoors whilst it's still cold they'll be a foot tall and you wont know what to do with them.. lol

ow plenty of water once they get gowing to .

To hand pollinate corn, you need to shake the tops. That releases the pollen to float down to the female silk. I had to do that last year when my neighbor all of a sudden plowed up his field next to mine so he could plant dent-type for his cows. Fortunately I had a 2 week head start. The farmers plant corn in the same field only once every 3 years.

thanks for the replies, how many sweetcorn on one plant?

I can forsee us queing up in the future for cammacbusby water melon's and sweetcorn, you are way ahead of me and I have been growing for years, xx

depends on how good your pollination is and-- i think-- the variety maybe a couple of corns?

About 3 generally I think. They appear in the leaf axils and are hard to miss at first. You need to be on the ball to pick them when they're just right - involves peeling back the husk and squashing one of the kernals - I THINK they are meant to be milky inside, but I'm not too sure, maybe someone else could confirm please?

sounds good if you leave them to long they go rock hard when you cook them .as far as corn is concerned better early than late .

Usually two ears of corn per stalk. You'll have better yield if you plant more than one corn plant. Direct seed them as soon as the frost reliabley gone....they don't transplant well. When the silk (tassles) on the ears turn brown they are ready to harvest.
Sid....yes they are milky inside.

Melons...You can expect three to five fruit per plant...depending on the variety. Again, you are best planting more than one plant as the male and female flowers tend to come out at different times. In England, you will need to grow them in a greenhouse as they need lots of heat....Try and find an early variety such as Sugar Baby which will produce about 6lb fruit. If you are growing them on a trellis then you will need to support the fruit in a "hammock" otherwise they will break the vines down. You will probably end up having to hand pollinate...not a big deal. The female flowers have a swollen base and the males don't.

thank you plenty info here.