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North Central Alabama | Silver Queen has always been my favorite untill this year i was given a dozen of Ambrosia and i believe it was the best i have ever eaten.I will be planting some next year. |
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NW ILLINOIS | That is one of the standards around here in NW IL.
olf20 / Bob |
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barry county mi | WE HAVE GROWING FOR SEVERAL YEARS AND BODASIS SPELL WRONG ALSO VERY GOOD ARCHIE |
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| I usually plant 4-6 different kinds but Ambrosia gets over half, seems to be majority's favorite around here, even the coons... :-) |
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Northern IN | That's been the majority, if not all of our patch for years. I have yet to find anything I like better. |
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| WE've tried several different sweet corns over the years and always go back to Ambrosia. Last 3-4 years, it's the only one we have planted. Wife prefers it for canning as well. |
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Ambrosia was always one of our favorites. Never cared much for Jackpot. Went to the RR this year, not impressed, but weed control is much easier than hand weeding.
This picture is a little dated, but shows nice ear size.
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Pilot Grove, Missouri | I see someone else relies on electric fence to keep the coons out. Guy at COOP tried to give me some type of animal repellant (mainly pepper i think) to try instead of using the electric fence this year. I told him the fence had not failed me in 9 years I wasn't going to take a chance. Patrick |
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Carbondale, KS | Personally I don't care for it. I think the optimum picking window is narrow, not real sweet, and gets starchy quick. I prefer Avalon and really haven't found anything else that I like more than that. I also think it cans very starchy too. I know several locally that feel the same as the posters above.
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MB-SK | serendipity is the best for me |
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| Yup, been planting it for a few years....people love it. |
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| We used to plant a little every year. But the worms are very hard to stay on top of, then the bugs behind the worms,,then the birds come in and chase the bugs.
If planted too early, it is so short the cons have to lay on their backs to eat it. |
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SW Wisconsin | We like Serendipity also, kind of hate to rock the boat when something works but may have to try some Ambrosia just out of curiosity! Serendipity keeps well in the fridge and along the roadside, does Ambrosia? |
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| coons love it above all others |
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| that ear of corn is half as big as her! I bet she keeps up with her brothers |
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Eastern VA. No such thing as too many Magnums. | Ambrosia seems to be popular, but I don't like SE sweet corn. I can't believe anyone still plants silver queen. Silver queen is the original SU sweet corn and its horrible stuff we grew when I was a little kid in the late 70s. It certainly made a name for itself. So that leads me to believe the stuff in the early 70s was even nastier. If you want a good sweet corn, plant something with Sh2 characteristics. Or even a synergistic. Then you get the germination of an SE with the good taste of an SH2. If you liked silver queen, almost ANYTHING will be an improvement by comparison. People are funny about sweet corn. We ship corn all over the east. The north wants bicolor, the mid atlantic wants white, and down south we primarily sell yellow. We like 278 bicolor and 378 white. "Awesome" and 1336 are good yellows. Devotion and Obsession are also good varieties, but they don't yield or have the durability of 278/378, but that probably doesn't matter for your needs. |
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Anybody plant Ambrosia sweet corn?
