corn kernels are technically fruit (just as a pumpkin is technically a berry). According to the Encyclopaedia Britannica, a fruit is “the fleshy or dry ripened ovary of a flowering plant ...

Alternatively, if you forgot to grow plants earlier, you can still grow corn by planting seeds directly into the soil in late spring and early summer. Use a dibber to make 2.5cm holes and sow two ...

When corn arrived “they already understood the whole notion of planting seeds and managing ... They were the only animals that could eat the fruit whole and pass the seed,” said VanDerwarker.