Corn

Sweet: This is a lovely mix of sweet corn landraces, grexes, and a few named varieties. A lot of coastal and short-season corn are present, including a large contribution from Shea Burns of Nye Ranch, one of the growers in our farmer support program. The mix last year produced a lot of great plants with tasty cobs for me, and I expect this year’s mix will be just as amazing.

Grain: Yet again, we were fortunate enough to receive so many contributions from donors this year to create perhaps the most diverse mix of corn available in a single packet. Last year’s mix was incredible, and I believe this year is equally so. You will find dents, flints, flours, and an array of colors present. We received so much corn that we increased the packet fill. Expect a lot of corn seed to start your adventures in gardening this year. Plant densely.

Popping: This is an interesting mix that contains two developed popcorn grexes, teosinte, and progeny of a popcorn and teosinte cross in its third generation. You will notice small cobs or pieces of cobs are included in packets. These are from the popcorn x teosinte crosses and may contain seeds that were not free threshing. Grow them and select for free threshing again. I thresh the teosinte x popcorn cobs by drying them, putting them in a pillow case, and then whacking it against a hard surface a few times until most of the seeds have threshed out. Whatever does not thresh out can be thrown away or planted again and selected for free threshing. There is a lot of fun in this mix to experiment with.

Packets contain approximately 200 seeds.