peteyfoozer
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What is your favorite short season, or early sweet corn and who is the supplier?
Favorite short season corn?
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Well, this won't answer your sweet corn question, but if you ever played with the idea of growing flour corn you should absolutely
give Painted Mountain a try.
I had never grown flour corn before last season, but Steve, aka digits, wrote about it with such admiration that I had to try it.
It's a very handsome corn, with a variation in stalk color, some green, some deep burgundy, and some a mixture of the two colors.
And I could wax eloquent about the beauty of the ears when you unzip them!!
Now don't think you aren't interested in a flour corn because you don't have a grinder, thanks to Seedcorn (teg member) we now know how to grind it in a blender.
Did I mention what great cornbread it makes?
But I know you require a short season corn...and guess what? It's that too! I was able to grow it and let it dry on the stalk in my climate where a stinking tomato won't ripen even with a lot of special treatment and coddling.
And it's available from: Territorial Seed Co.
Johnnys Selected Seeds
and High Mowing
and maybe many others. Most catalogs I've seen it in just list it as an ornamental corn, but it's so much more...
give Painted Mountain a try.
I had never grown flour corn before last season, but Steve, aka digits, wrote about it with such admiration that I had to try it.
It's a very handsome corn, with a variation in stalk color, some green, some deep burgundy, and some a mixture of the two colors.
And I could wax eloquent about the beauty of the ears when you unzip them!!
Now don't think you aren't interested in a flour corn because you don't have a grinder, thanks to Seedcorn (teg member) we now know how to grind it in a blender.
Did I mention what great cornbread it makes?
But I know you require a short season corn...and guess what? It's that too! I was able to grow it and let it dry on the stalk in my climate where a stinking tomato won't ripen even with a lot of special treatment and coddling.
And it's available from: Territorial Seed Co.
Johnnys Selected Seeds
and High Mowing
and maybe many others. Most catalogs I've seen it in just list it as an ornamental corn, but it's so much more...
Sprinkler Buddy
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As a child, my dad was a corn farmer. The sweetest corn he ever brought home was called "Bi-Color". Not sure where they got their seed but I'm sure it's out there. They farmed on a big scale, you may have eaten his brother's corn, he now supplies super markets with sweet corn and beans all over the US.
digitS'
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Oh hey, Petey! You are really hitting the right notes for me.
I've been trying all my gardening life to come up with varieties that can survive a cool start to the growing season, cool every night, and still mature by early September!
I didn't mention the Sub-arctic tomatoes that I used to grow when I gardened at a higher elevation. I won't dwell on the Polar Vee sweet corn other than to say that THIS was what I used to have to contend with & settle for! I mean the nearest railroad siding had a sign that read: North Pole . . .
Okay, I've grown "SE" corn just about as long as it has been available. Most of the varieties in this class have good cold soil tolerance. They can germinate at low temperatures.
Not all of the SE varieties are real short-season types, however. It is just that they can get started early. Bodacious and Ambrosia are probably in this group. I can grow 'em but there aren't too many weeks that I can enjoy 'em. Staggering the sowings may not be possible for you. I find both of these at the local garden center but Burpee and Fedco have Ambrosia. Harris, Gurneys, & Park have Bodacious.
Sugar Buns may be on its way to becoming my very favorite sweet corn. It matures a little earlier than the other 2 but is not supposed to have such good cold tolerance. I don't know. I've grown it for 2 years and never had a problem with germination. Fedco, Johnny's, and Gurneys carry it.
Spring Snow is one that I've grown and it lives up to its name, as best as one could hope, anyway. Fedco & Harris have that seed.
One that I've grown for more years than I care to admit is Fleet. Somewhere it says that this is the earliest of the SE varieties. I'm almost embarrassed to have it out there!! This is one tiny corn plant - but early, oh yeah! I can sow the seed about 4 times, if'n I want to, and harvest every crop! The ears are a little short but not ridiculously so. You will be able to stand in your corn patch and look right over the top of the plants! Johnny's has Fleet.
I might think of another one or 2 that I've grown . . .
Steve
I've been trying all my gardening life to come up with varieties that can survive a cool start to the growing season, cool every night, and still mature by early September!
I didn't mention the Sub-arctic tomatoes that I used to grow when I gardened at a higher elevation. I won't dwell on the Polar Vee sweet corn other than to say that THIS was what I used to have to contend with & settle for! I mean the nearest railroad siding had a sign that read: North Pole . . .
Okay, I've grown "SE" corn just about as long as it has been available. Most of the varieties in this class have good cold soil tolerance. They can germinate at low temperatures.
Not all of the SE varieties are real short-season types, however. It is just that they can get started early. Bodacious and Ambrosia are probably in this group. I can grow 'em but there aren't too many weeks that I can enjoy 'em. Staggering the sowings may not be possible for you. I find both of these at the local garden center but Burpee and Fedco have Ambrosia. Harris, Gurneys, & Park have Bodacious.
Sugar Buns may be on its way to becoming my very favorite sweet corn. It matures a little earlier than the other 2 but is not supposed to have such good cold tolerance. I don't know. I've grown it for 2 years and never had a problem with germination. Fedco, Johnny's, and Gurneys carry it.
Spring Snow is one that I've grown and it lives up to its name, as best as one could hope, anyway. Fedco & Harris have that seed.
One that I've grown for more years than I care to admit is Fleet. Somewhere it says that this is the earliest of the SE varieties. I'm almost embarrassed to have it out there!! This is one tiny corn plant - but early, oh yeah! I can sow the seed about 4 times, if'n I want to, and harvest every crop! The ears are a little short but not ridiculously so. You will be able to stand in your corn patch and look right over the top of the plants! Johnny's has Fleet.
I might think of another one or 2 that I've grown . . .
Steve
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peteyfoozer
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oh thistle bloom! I am working hard on getting a grinder! I am going to have to give that corn a try!
Steve- you are a prince among men. Thank you for the information, its VERY much appreciated!
Steve- you are a prince among men. Thank you for the information, its VERY much appreciated!
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Well a grinder would be lovely, but I just use my blender, just put all the required liquid in with the corn and grind that way.peteyfoozer said:
I presoak about 2 cups of corn overnight, drain, spread on a cookie sheet and pop in the freezer for about 4 hours, then put in a ziploc
bag and keep in the freezer until I need it for corn bread. Then I can just take out what I need.
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