The Jolly Green Greenhouse Girl ...
Does anyone remember the adverts for Jolly Green Giant Sweetcorn? And the song ... sing along now ...
"Good things from the garden,
Garden in the valley,
Valley of the jolly – Ho, Ho, Ho – Green Giant."
Actually, I didn’t remember the song either ...… but like most people just remember the “Ho, Ho, Ho – Green Giant” which was the only vocabulary of the Jolly Green Giant first introduced back in 1925! (doesn’t time fly when you’re having fun ...)
In fact, according to Advertising Age magazine, the Jolly Green Giant is the third most recognizable advertising character of the century’s ton ten ad icons, following behind Ronald McDonald and the Marlboro Man ... at least JGG is advertising something relatively healthy!!!
JGG On A Small Scale
I’m not actually growing sweet corn on such a grand scale as the Green Giant Company, but I have got a small section of the allotment full of new sweetcorn plants ... mmmm I can smell the melted butter over the corn on the cob already!
These plants were started off in seed trays in April and when large enough transplanted into pots and kept in the greenhouse. Another recommended way of growing sweetcorn is to start them off using Rootrainers – this means that their roots aren’t disturbed when you plant them out – and whereas I potted the young plants into pots about a month before planting out, it is possible to sow the sweetcorn in the rootrainers and let them grow there until they are large enough to plant out.
