Corn
There's nothing like the taste of fresh-picked sweet corn in the summertime. Growing your own juicy, sweet and tender sweet corn is so rewarding. Growing popcorn is also fun—and sometimes popcorn can double as ornamental corn for fall decorations. When selecting corn seeds and plants for home gardens, determine how you want to use it. Some corn is tops for eating fresh while other is best for freezing and canning. Some corn varieties produce early in the corn season while others are late producers. Many gardeners plant a few varieties to ensure a long sweet corn harvest. Other considerations are whether you want white, yellow or bi-colored corn. No matter what variety of corn seed you choose, remember than corn grows best in full sun and well-drained soil—and should be sown after the soil is warm.
- Zone
- Season
- Light Requirements
- Height
- Spread
Corn Genotypes
Su: Normal or standard. Old fashioned taste and creaminess. Limited harvest and storage time.Se & Se+: Sugary enhanced. Tender kernels with longer harvest and storage time than su.
Sh2: Supersweet or shrunken. High sugar content and crunchy, tougher kernels. Longer harvest and storage time than se & su.
Syn: Synergistic. contains se and sh2 kernels for sweet, crisp, tender kernels with longer storage.
Aug: Augmented. Supersweet with tender, juicy kernels.
Quad: Quad Sweet. Old fashioned taste and modern sweetness.
Popcorns should be isolated by maturity date from sweet corns. Sh2 & Aug should be isolated by maturity date from Su, Se, Se+, Syn & Quad.
