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Old-fashioned corn?

ginnywhiskersginnywhiskers Posts: 5
in Fruit & veg

Where can I find seeds for corn on the cob that isn't one of the 'super-sweet", "sugar-enhanced" varieties?  They seem to have taken over completely from the old-fashioned kind in seed catalogues.

 

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  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,140

    And here

    http://www.realseeds.co.uk/

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  • ginnywhiskersginnywhiskers Posts: 5

    Thanks very much for the swift replies, people. They both look hopeful;  Realseeds only has one, but it seems to be the best of all.  Have you tried any of them?

     

  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,140

    I've not tried their sweetcorn, but I've used other of their seeds which have always been of really good quality image


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  • LeifUKLeifUK Posts: 573

    Real seeds are very good, always fresh seed. 

  • Zoomer44Zoomer44 Posts: 3,267
    Have you tried growing mini pop Pansyface, it has a shorter growing time than corn on the cob. It doesn't need to be polinated and can be grown in rows. It' s picked when the cobs are still small and the strands coming from the cobs are still yellow. The plants themselves though are 6 to 7 ft tall.



    I had two crops last year by sowing seeds 4 weeks apart
  • Zoomer44Zoomer44 Posts: 3,267
    Try googling sweet corn, mini pop, Pansyface. Most seed companies sell the seeds and give good descriptions of what it is.
  • ginnywhiskersginnywhiskers Posts: 5

    Realseeds and Vegetableseedstore don't sell them, presumably because they're modern F1 hybrids, but here's a link to people that do:

    http://www.vegetableseeds.net/Sweet_Corn_Minipop_p/scn06.htm

    They sound rather good  -  I'll give them a try if I have any money or garden space left after ordering from realseeds ...

     

     

  • Zoomer44Zoomer44 Posts: 3,267

    That's a good price for minipop and they usually only come in packets of 30 seeds. 

    If you do decide to grow minipop and it's a windy spot it's better to plant them in a trench and earth up as they grow, gives them a deeper root system and anchours them into the ground. I plant small pumkins to wind in amoungest the minipop plants along with dwarf beans, similar to the 'three sisters' principle although the beans being dwarf aren't trained to climb up the minipop plants , it works well and keeps down the weedsimage. 

  • ginnywhiskersginnywhiskers Posts: 5

    Thanks for the advice Zoomer44.  It's not terribly windy  -  I'm in Dorset - but your plan of corn with pumpkins and beans sounds very attractive.  I prefer climbing beans though ...  just need to think of a way to arrange things so that the beans don't get in the way of the pollination of the corn ...

     

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