Corn in your garden this year?

[Dewdrop]

I know this is an old thread, but this year my folks and I are tentatively going to nurture, harvest, and 'test-taste'  Golden Bantam and Country Gentleman sweet corn.

[keen101 (Biolumo / Andrew B.)]

This year I'm doing a grow out of Double Red sweet with old purple kernels from Astronomy Domine sweet. I might throw in some detasseled country gentlemen to breed a new shoe peg sweetcorn. Also might detassel some Japanese waxy corn.

[RpR]

Planted:
Sweet Corn:
Double Red
Martian Jewels
Breeder's Choice
Kandy Korn
Country Gentlemen
Precious Gem

Field Corn:
Aunt Mary's Dent
Casto Family Heirloom
H&M Yellow Dent
Henry W. Wood Seed Co.

I almost TKOd a turkey with a shovel so I am not have them destroy my planting this year.
So far , with the wet weather we have had, although we went from winter 20 some degrees F, to summer 80 some degrees F in days, both of my gardens are thriving.

[blueadzuki]

I GUESS I'm going to try some corn this year, assuming I can get the patch turned over (with all the tree roots, it gets harder and harder every year).

WHAT corn, I have yet to decide. The way I see it, I have two options (and, unlike many on this site, I don't have the space to do both at the same time and be able to keep them discrete and not crossing.

The first option would be to continue trying with my miniature non-popcorn experiments, which, this year, would mean doing the red dent one (the one I think is the result of a cross between Strawberry Popcorn and some sort of field corn). Those seed samples aren't getting any younger. Of course, every year I DO try, the animals end up eating every single seed or seedling long before they can produce anything.

The second option is to try the miniature Glass Gem I have saved up. This has a few disadvantages, the main one being that doing so wouldn't advance the above corn project any. On the other hand, there is the advantage that I have SO MUCH seed of that one stored up that, if I use it all and overplant like crazy, there may actually be so much seed the animals CAN'T eat it all before some of it makes it to a stage where they stop being interested in it.

[RpR]

Mar 11, 2022 10:17:43 GMT -5 keen101 (Biolumo / Andrew B.) said:

This year I'm doing a grow out of Double Red sweet with old purple kernels from Astronomy Domine sweet. I might throw in some detasseled country gentlemen to breed a new shoe peg sweetcorn. Also might detassel some Japanese waxy corn.

There was a few years back, a hybrid Country Gentlemen, called COGENT.
I bought it and it looked to be pretty much the same as the non-hybrid, but, when I planted both types side by side, the ears that fall on some were yellow.
The place that sold does not any more.