Corn!

13 years ago

Sweet corn for dinner last night . . ! It was so welcome and good!

Where are you in the corn patch??

Sugar Buns, a first try for that variety! Supposed to be a 72 day variety so, not incredibly early.

The last few years, I have had Fleet. Fleet plants are so tiny and the ears so short that they are almost embarrassing. Probably could have enjoyed that corn a week ago if I'd really been on the ball back in the springtime but the weather was real dicey during the corn-planting weeks.

Usually have EH/SE varieties. I've got a little Casino growing and it should be ready next. That one was a gamble - didn't know if it had "good cold soil emergence," or not!

(I found Fedco's "Corn Cold Germination Tests for 2010" and linked it below. Might be of some help . . .)

There are some real standards in the garden with Bodacious and still had SugarSnow seed, altho' that white one is getting hard to find. Ambrosia bi-color is a Bodacious sister, as I understand it. By the time Ambrosia comes around, all the corn has to be bi-color!! Because that's what I will get from growing so many patches of different color sweet corn!

Steve

Here is a link that might be useful: Corn Cold Germination Tests for 2010, Fedco

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Comments (2)

kareng_grow
13 years ago
I'm very jealous! I have a raised bed of Early Sunglow corn that's taking FOREVER to grow. It's supposed to be a 63 day variety and was planted on June 21. Would living at 7300 ft. be part of the problem? Anyway, my corn stalks are beautiful but it will probably be another 4 wks., maybe more, before I can harvest anything. Let's hope we have that long before our first freeze...
gjcore
13 years ago
I've been pulling an average of about an ear of corn for a month. Last weekend I harvested the rest of an entire bed of sugar dot corn and then blanched and froze it. I didn't want it to keep going and get starchy.

I still have a bed of Jackpot hybrid that's just about ready and then a small bed of heirloom country gentlemen that seems to have at least a couple weeks to go yet.

Additionally I have a handful of areas that a planted a few corn plants. Not expecting much out of those and I have been doing some hand pollinating on them. It was more of a test to see how they would do in their given areas.
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