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KY | What varieties do you like for sweet corn and where is the best source for seed? We have typically had silver Queen and peaches and cream in our garden, but wanted to plant a couple hundred feet 6 rows wide of something popular for the kids to pick and sell this year. Probably need 8-10,000 seeds or so. |
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| Love Ambrosia. Nice sized ears.
https://www.earlmay.com/products/?show=search
could also try Rupp or Jordan Seed. |
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Indiana | Definitely get some Serendipity. You might try to find a company in your area that specializes in small seeds, lawn and garden, grass seed, etc. Sometimes they will have bulk seed of many different hybrids available and you could buy in small quantities. |
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West Central Wisconsin | Around "here" we have had excellent response to Bodacious for it's flavor and yield. We were told by a seed dealer it was the most requested seed by the local Amish. We sold out front of our house with an honor cash box for ten years and never had problems. Five years later we still have people asking if we will have corn to sell. I have been getting a Round Up Ready, bi-color from my main seed dealer lately that we've been pleased with, Serendipity IIRC. Joe |
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Northeast Ohio | We like Primus sweet corn real well. Rupp Seeds, Wauseon, Ohio (419) 337-1841. Nice people and good prices. |
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North of London | Should be able to buy seed at a garden centre in bulk if it is a true garden supply centre.
A though would be to get several varieties with different maturities to stretch out the season of sales.
If this is the first then it may take a little while to build a customer base so a little corn early might start getting attention and if our market is indicative the price is might better for early supply before everyone gets saturated.
If not different maturities then spread out the planting dates. |
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| X 2 on the Ambrosia. We've tried other varieties but always go back to Ambrosia. Great to eat & freezes very well. We'll plant a few rows of Silver Queen every year but majority of it never gets picked. Our seed dealer usually gives us a 5# bag of Ambrosia seed each year. I have also broughten sweet corn seed from Jordan Seeds on-line
Edited by boog 2/15/2015 13:57
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W TN | +1 on Serendipity. I plant about 2 acres of that one variety and it sells like crazy once word gets out that it is ready. |
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KY | Don't use RUP sweet corn seed, what is your preferred weed control plan?
Also, any reason I can't make it work by planting this plot as the end rows of a field of regular #2 corn?
Edited by ihmanky 2/15/2015 15:54
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Tip of the Thumb of Michigan | We plant our bigger patch with the field corn. It's easy to get the N on that way, but you have to not forget to skip the roundup. My neighbor killed half his last summer. For weed control, use a rotor tiller and the kids that are selling it. I went with a low population last year and got 2 ears on every stalk. The second was ready about 5 days later. I think it was 24,000.
Edited by arcticcatfarmer 2/15/2015 16:02
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| We used to give a lot away as a thank you for doing business with us. I started planting 2 rows together and then left a gap wide enough to drive something to pick into. I figured it saved enough labor to offset the lost land. Planted the 2 rows the same as field corn. |
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Martinsville, Ohio | https://www.harrisseeds.com/storefront/s-292-corn-seeds-sweet-corn.aspx I like Harris and Rupp's varieties, Ryan. I like a tall corn more like sweet corn, not the squatty ones. Vision for yellow Avalon types for white Providence types for bicolor Yellow sold best for me. Weed control, usually what I use for corn or tilled up nice and atrazine post. Ed
Edited by Ed Winkle 2/15/2015 16:23
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Centralia, MO | Spray it just like your field corn but keep the roundup away from it. Incredible and Bodacious are both yellow corns and very common. The Incredible is about 10 days longer season and also taller. Both would out sell the bicolor for us. Good luck with it! |
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Ludington/Manistee MI area | ihmanky - 2/15/2015 16:50
Don't use RUP sweet corn seed, what is your preferred weed control plan?
Also, any reason I can't make it work by planting this plot as the end rows of a field of regular #2 corn?
Why not? Tried RR sweet corn last year no intentions of going back weed control was easy. Don't feed me the GMO line for the small amount that corn is of your total annual food intake it doesn't mattter in the big picture. Best tasting sweet corn I had by far last year was my RR corn here every one that sells sweet corn things it needs to be nearly dented to sell it. |
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KY | I was thinking that. I don't use RUP corn anyway, so no issue. I used RUP one year and Dad planted non RUP corn and didn't tell me, I was spraying one day and he said "go ahead and hit that 20 acres across the road while you're at it". I did... we replanted on July 5th and got 95 bushels out of it and broke about even, only because my seed dealer took care of the seed. |
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Sweet corn for very small plot...
