Sweet corn is a warm-season vegetable that can be grown easily in most gardens.
Successive plantings will yield continuous harvests in late summer through early fall. It grows best with plenty of sunlight, water and nutrients. There are dozens of varieties of sweet corn to choose from. Each varies in its combination of sweetness, texture, kernel color, maturity date and disease resistance, explained Bill Mansour, vegetable crops specialist with the Oregon State University Extension Service. If neither designation is given it is probably a standard sweet type of corn.