May 15 is a critical date for me as a gardener in Eaton County, Michigan.
May 15 is my target date for planting my "winter cabbage" and my ornamental corn.
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One of the nice things about ornamental corn is you can save your own seeds and create a blend that you like.
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Corwin Davis, a market gardener from Bellevue Michigan once advised me that the corn that sold like hot-cakes had twice as much yellow as white, twice as much white as red and twice as much red as blue.
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The striped pattern on the kernels of the left-most ear is striking and the ear on the right seemed almost like translucent glass when first harvested.
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The ear on the left was enormous.
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A close-up of one of the ears. The kernels remind me of the candy-corn we got at Halloween.
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Hmmm! A big miss on the 65% yellow, 20% white, 10% red and 5% blue.
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From a different angle. These are the tip-ends. One notable thing is that all of my seed sources (except the enormous ear, third from left) filled out to the tip very, very well.
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Five, 60' rows of corn
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Oh, and I did get the Deadon cabbage seeds planted today.
Is that corn eatable? I see Johnny's is out of that cabbage. You must be a trend setter. --ken
ReplyDeleteI have eaten it. It makes fine corn-bread and cornmeal mush. As roasters, they are chewy and filling...but not sweet.
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Thanks for the correction.
Very nice, and we don't see much 'ornamental' corn down this way.
ReplyDeleteIt is a niche product, to be sure. Normal corn is about maximizing production per acre. Ornamental corn is about a pretty ear of corn and maximizing size per cob. That means the ornamental corn gets planted at a lot fewer plants per acre. Also, I don't know of any clones that are Round-up Ready or have the GM disease and insect resistance packages.
DeleteI do it because it is fun. I never know what I am going to get.