14 corn varieties early mid late varieties NON-GMO heirloom seeds DELICIOUS LOOK

Description: Frontier Seeds is now making available 10 of our best corn varieties for your home garden. These are early, mid, and late season varieties. This is a great assortment that will work well for you. Some of kernels will be white, some yellow, some multi-color. All ez to grow and all DELICIOUS! We chose these varieties as they are some of our best tasting and easiest to grow and we know you're going to love them! 30 seeds each variety Varieties include...1. Hickory King Yellow 2. Hickory King White 3. Lancaster Sure Crop 4. Boone County White 5. Yellow popcorn 6. Silvermine 7. Eureka 8. Pencil cob 9. Golden Bantam 8 10. Japanese Hulless popcorn 11. Truckers Favorite Yellow 12. Truckers favorite White 13. Stowell's Evergreen 14. Country Gentleman 15. All varieties/420+ seeds You can also buy all of the varieties, a 95.00 dollar value, for only 29.99 a super deal! if you would like to learn a little more about these varieties, please read on, more info for each variety follows... HICKORY KING YELLOW---Originating in Appalachia around the late 1800s. Huge yellow kernels not seen in modern corn. Hickory King produces plants that are 12' tall. Each stalk produces 2 very large ears. Excellent for SWEET CORN roasting, grits, cornmeal, and cornuts. Hickory king has a very high leafy green matter which makes it perfect for silage. Tight husks which help keep out corn worms. Was also known as "bingo corn" in the South as the kernels are so big they were used as bingo chips! STOWELL'S EVERGREEN---This is among the oldest sweet corn still in production, predating 1849. It remains a favorite of many, producing tasty white kernels. The plants used to be pulled up when completely ripe, and hung upside down in a cool pantry; the ears would last well into the winter, in a semi-fresh state. In 1873, the seeds sold for 25 cents per pint. COUNTRY GENTLEMAN---From 1890, this unusual white corn has irregular rows and great flavor. Country Gentleman is one of the most unusual sweet corns around because its white kernels are arranged irregularly, not in rows. The kernels are also very deep and narrow, hence its alternate name, Shoe-peg. Developed around 1890 in the Connecticut River Valley, it is a much bigger form of a very old variety. In fertile soils, it can yield three ears per stalk, sometimes more. HICKORY KING WHITE---Hickory King White Corn is an heirloom field corn variety with super-sized plants, ears and kernels. This white, open-pollinated variety produces plants that can get as large as 12-13′ tall. Each plant will produce two large ears, usually around 9-10″ in length. LANCASTER SURE CROP---85-110 days. Lancaster Sure Crop Corn is an heirloom field corn variety with tall plants and large ears. Developed in Lancaster, PA in the 1900s, this yellow field corn variety provides high yields coupled with exceptional drought tolerance. BOONE COUNTY WHITE---Boone County White was created by Mr. James Riley of Boone County, Indiana back in 1874. Mr. Riley started with the variety "White Mastodon" and selected on the traits he desired such as ear size and leaf size. A few years later he released his new corn and named it Boone County White. Boone County was very popular for good reason. It is a very heavy producer of huge ears that measure 9-11" in length. That is almost a foot long! The uniform ears have 18-22 rows. Heavily leaved, which is great for shading out under story weeds. EUREKA---Stalks grow a huge 11-13' tall. (See the old 1907 ad that says Eureka grows 18-20' tall!) Very large ears that measure 10-11" long. 14-16 rows on an ear. White kernels. Great roaster or storage dent corn huge amounts of silage for your cows or goats. Very old variety. Currently, we are one of the very last seed companies to carry this great old heirloom. JAPANESE HULLESS POPCORN-Japanese Hulless corn grows 4-5 ft. tall and bears 3-6 four in. long ears. This corn is a little nutty, flavorful popcorn that is very productive. Japanese Hulless is also a great corn to grow with the kids because they get excited knowing the corn they are growing will be a tasty, buttery treat on family movie night! PENCIL COB---Although now relatively rare, this old "shoe peg type" dent corn variety is an heirloom variety from the Southern United States that pre-dates 1900. 'Pencil Cob' is a very flavorful roastin ear corn variety, or picked in its early milk stage at about 75 days, it is used for frying or creaming. The plants grow five to six feet tall and produce two to three ears per stalk. It gets its name from the fact that the cobs are not much bigger in diameter than a pencil. Although most merchants simply state that it is a white corn, the color of the kernels are actually a dull or drab white color with a yellowish hue, and tips that pick up a reddish tinge from the cob's coloring. 'Pencil Cob' withstands dry weather spells well. SILVERMINE---'Silvermine' is an old dent variety that was once commonly grown throughout the Corn Belt of the United States. It is a little earlier than 'Boone County White', with somewhat smaller ears but usually deeper grains.[1] The ears grow about nine inches long and have fourteen to sixteen rows of large, white kernels. 'Silvermine' can be used as a roasting corn variety, and is also excellent for grits, meal, and animal feed. Its history is a bit confusing as there are several similar varietal names (i.e. 'Iowa Silver Mine' and 'Silver Mine'). To further complicate matters, after it was originally released to the public (circa 1890), it became popular and further breeding work commenced. This resulted in an increasing number of strains with the same name. In 1903, the Kansas Agricultural Experiment Station obtained commercial samples from several seed companies — Funk Bros., Iowa Seed Company, and Barteldes Seed Company — and started breeding work. They subsequently sold their strain to a Mr. Ernest W. Young of Lawrence, Kansas in 1907 for further refinement and release. YELLOW POPCORN---This somewhat uninventively named cultivar is an heirloom variety that has been traced back to ancient Native American tribe. This variety preserves perfectly, so you can keep enjoying your corn all throughout the cold winter months. Bright yellow 8-inch ears take 100 days to reach full maturity, and this plant needs full sun exposure to thrive.TRUCKERS FAVORITE WHITE---80 to 115 days — 'Trucker's Favorite White' is an early, old standard dent corn variety that produces nine inch ears and have between sixteen and eighteen rows of tender, relatively sweet white kernels, making it a favorite roasting corn or frying corn. The plants grow to about six to seven feet tall TRUCKERS FAVORITE YELLOW---Truckers Favorite Yellow Corn is one of our favorite field corn varieties for making corn meal or grits. This yellow dent corn produces 9-10′ tall plants that grow well in a variety of conditions, although especially adapted for warmer climates. Golden Bantam 8---1936 James Seed Company catalog says about Golden Bantam Corn Seed... "Still the best of all varieties of sweet corn. This strain has for 20 years been bred to the most rigid standards of excellence. Golden Bantam grows only 4 feet high, bearing 2 to 4 ears to each stalk; the ears are 5 to 8 inches in length, of a beautiful yellow when ready for use, and a most delicious flavor. Plant early in rows 3 feet apart, 10 inches between the plants in the rows. Never plant corn in a long single row, always plant in a block of 3 or more rows. On well-drained ground Golden Bantam corn will stand light frost while young. For main crop plant corn seed during the second week in May, and a planting three weeks later will further prolong the season, and Golden Bantam season cannot last too long. Give the land thorough cultivation as often as possible, and the most delicious ears of sweet corn you ever tasted will be your reward." Golden Bantam corn has been grown in those hot Texas summers for many years. This is one of the best heirloom sweet corns for Texas. Corn needs nights well above 55 degrees and hot daytime temps to really produce well and Texas surely has that. Many a sultry summer night you may lay awake so hot you stick to the sheets, but its good to know your corn sure likes it! It all makes sense because corn is believed to be native to Texas' neighbor Mexico. Golden Bantam corn is getting much harder to get as GE and Hybrid corns now dominate the market. Open Pollinated (OP) corns in general are getting very rare. I urge you to learn to save seed and become a seed saver. Remember, you must have at least 200 plants to save seed from for genetic diversity. More is better of course. Other corn pollen such as that from GE corn, will contaminate your OP corn and can reach a mile or more. Prevent this with hand pollination. It's ez and you can learn to do this online.

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