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Please note this is Shared Acres’
first time for Sweet Corn production
but with due to high demand we will
give a try. This is not in our
expected harvest but with some hard
work and love it will be included in
your harvest.
Golden Bantam
- Upon its release in 1902, Golden
Bantam changed sweet corn
preferences, overcoming popular
prejudice against yellow corn (once
called “horse corn”) and
ending the
dominance of white varieties.
By 1934, Bantam had so captured the
market that U.P. Hedrick wrote in
The Corns of New York, “This has
been for several years the most
popular sweet corn for all purposes.
The name has become so thoroughly
impregnated in the minds of the
growers and consumers that many of
them will not accept anything else.”
Graced Burpee’s 50th anniversary
cover in 1926 and Johnny’s cover in
1980. Long narrow 7" ears sit on
5–6' stalks. Very sweet and tasty if
picked promptly at maturity. High on
old-fashioned corn flavor.
Luscious
-
Light up your taste buds with
lip-smacking lusty Luscious! If you
like your corn sweet, Luscious
really lives up to its name. With a
good balance of sugars and corn
taste, the attractive blunt 8" ears
are just what you want in an early
midseason bicolor. And it is easy to
grow, too, with good cold soil
emergence and early vigor. A
breakthrough for the folks at Mesa
Maize, Luscious was their first
organically produced variety.
Nauset
- The PR person who named this
delicious sweet corn gets failing
grades. Although Nauset was a Native
American tribe on Cape Cod and is
now a beach, the inevitable first
association is something less
pleasant. Well, get over it! This
synergistic cross from Mesa
Maize makes mighty fine eating. The
long slender ears may be a little
deceiving as to ripeness (still
skinny at their peak) and hard to
pull off the vine, but their flavor
is worth the trouble. In fact, they
are without peer for roasting or
barbecuing. Their exquisite
tenderness and delicate balance
between sugars and corn flavor made
them the favorite of our 2009
tasters and a memorable treat.
Luther
Hill -
Developed by Luther Hill of Andover
Township, NJ, in 1902, and one of
the parents of the venerable Silver
Queen. The most popular sweet corn
in parts of New Jersey for over 50
years. Sweetest open-pollinated
corn I’ve ever tasted, Luther
makes multiple 3-6" miniature ears
on modest 4' stalks. Because the
suckers often yield good ears, each
plant, if spaced widely, can make up
to four ears. A great way to
introduce yourself to sweet corn the
way it was before the hybrids took
over.
Silver Queen
- Since the much-lamented demise of
Platinum Lady, Silver Queen has
become far and away my favorite
sweet corn, exhibiting the perfect
balance I often find lacking in more
modern varieties. Silver Queen has
become such a classic that the late
New York Timesreporter R.W.
Apple found that most large farmers
claiming to sell it had actually
switched to more modern hybrids.
However, we know that at least some
farmers are still selling the real
McCoy, because that’s what we offer.
Queen, a white hybrid, has
long set the standard for
late-maturing sweet corn with large
handsome ears, replete with glossy
white creamy sweet kernels that fill
to the very tips. Although risky in
short-season areas, it usually
ripens for us a few days before
Common Ground Fair in late
September, sneaking in just ahead of
our first killing frost. Other
varieties may be sweeter, but I (Fedco
Seeds) can’t think of a better way
to end the corn season.
Stowell’s Evergreen
-
The standard, white variety sweet
corn, first introduced in 1848.
Ears are 8 inches long and filled
with tender, sweet tasting
kernels. Great eaten on the cob.
A favorite for picnics and cookouts! |
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