Thinking spring...best sweet corn variety? Your opins!

Dave from MN · Feb 25, 2010

Gonna plant "Gotta have it", "Bodacious", "Quickie", "Sugar Buns", and "Northern Extra Sweet'. This year I am ordering it all from Gurney"s. Planting 2# of each, and gonna see what sells the best. The gotta have it the priciest. Prices are kinda high I though, from $32.99-$59.99 /2#. Tried peaches and cream a few years and wasnt really something people came back for, and talk about hard to pull off the stalk. Small farm grown sweet corn has been in high demand the last few years, I dont see much under $3.50/dozen the last few years, and the early guys have no problem getting $.50 cob. Good little extra income to put into the kids accounts.

BCnT · Feb 25, 2010

i hadnt really given much thot to a garden this year...got Gurney's catalog tho...prices sure are thru the roof even with the 25 buck discount...i was lookin at fruit trees...no way after last couple years of drought am i gonna risk that kinda cash.

El Toro · Feb 25, 2010

I always planted Silver Queen back when when I grew sweet corn. We froze a lot of it. Never froze it on the cob. I had 8 rows 100 feet long
and I would cut the stalks and make a big corn shock until they dried then ran them thru my Troy Bilt chipper/shredder. Sweet corn still sells very good around here. Hal

larry@stinescorner · Feb 25, 2010

I dont plant alot just for ourselves I sent for some gotta have it from gurneys too Our garden is over 1 hr away from where we live .so i we mostly get ther on the weekend. I work alot on saturdays so sometimes its only on sunday Last year I planted early and often it worked well for our situation, it didnt get ripe all at one time and was pretty good. does anybody plant silver queen anymore? Ialways liked that., my dad used to plant it in nj

NY 986 · Feb 25, 2010

Anybody got their Gurney catalog for spring of 2010? I thought I might be getting mine by now.

twomen · Feb 25, 2010

Mine came last Sat. The pics and discriptions make you want to buy everything!

PJH · Feb 25, 2010

Got mine late last week.

larry@stinescorner · Feb 25, 2010

got mine awhile ago

PJH · Feb 25, 2010

Dave, we've been planting Ambrosia sweet corn for the last few years. A friend introduced me to it. We switched from Bodacious after tasting his. It's a yellow/white variety like in your picture. Everybody raves over the sweetness.

Paul

Fordfarmer · Feb 25, 2010

Bodacious has been the best for me. Tried Peaches and Cream, but Bodacious is just as good or better tasting, and yields better, especially if you get a dry spell. Usually plant about 12 pounds, in the headlands of a non-RR field.

El Toro · Feb 25, 2010

You should call Berlin Seeds in OH at 1-877-464-0892 for their seed catalog. Their Bodacious is $8.50 per pound and the Sugar Buns is $9.10 per pound. Hal

Stephen in SoKY · Feb 25, 2010

I use "Incredible" and generally purchase it much cheaper than that at Southern States in 5 lb bags. It's an SE that sells well here, where the SH2 doesn't.

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oliver fan · Feb 25, 2010

After trying several different varieties, I plant only "Honey and Pearl" variety now. Once my neighbors try it, they plant it in their own guarden the next year.

El Toro · Feb 25, 2010

Here's what the 2010 Berlin Seed catalog looks like. Hal

msb · Feb 25, 2010

For freezing corn, we still (after 40 years ) still like NK199 the best. Getting hard to find these days. Incredible for fresh eating. Wold like to try "Gotta Have It", but its just too high.Not paying that much to anyone for seed.

Kruse · Feb 25, 2010

As a kid, I would always wait for the super thick Gurneys catalog and spent many hours looking through it. It used to be out of Yankton, S.D. and they had the kids packet of all kinds of seeds for $.01. They always bragged about how good the roots were on their fruit trees.
I know they went bankrupt and some other company bought the name and moved the company.
Stuff like that happens all the time, but are they any Yankton locals here wish to explain exactly what happened?
I realize there are huge costs running a company, but I feel some of their prices are a little high, probably because of catalog mailing costs.
The last advertisement I saw for them was in a Sunday newspaper advertising fall-out section, similar to those fly-by-night companies where all their stock is dead by the time it is mailed to you. I'm sure some of their stuff is pretty good.

Mike (WA) · Feb 25, 2010

I suppose I should get over my "mad" and try Bodacious again. Planted it a couple years ago, and not a single plant came up! Obviously just bad seed, but it left a bad taste, as well.

Main commercial variety around here is Golden Jubilee, and its hard to beat. Good flavor, and doesn't have such a small "window" between immaturity and over-ripe.

Charlie M · Feb 25, 2010

I hope you're ashamed of yourself posting this picture in the middle of winter. In my opinion there is no better vegetable from the garden than sweet corn. Anytime my wife asks what vegetable I want for supper the answer is always corn. We try to get some frozen for the winter as well. Its a battle with nature here to raise sweet corn - raccoons, deer. I had to resort to a fence last year to have any. In this area its around the beginning of July to get home grown corn and those super early varieties aren't too good. I guess I'll go and recheck my seed order to make sure there I have enough seed.

Mike Aylward · Feb 25, 2010

Dave, this question is almost like asking "what is your favorite color". We have planted Incredible for many years and it has always done the best for us as far as taste, yield, vigor, etc. We often try a newer variety but always come back to Incredible. Corns that claim to be sweeter than Incredible have less starch in the kernel. While this may be good for the taste buds it comes at a price. A seedling needs starch from the kernel to start and grow. If a kernel has a smaller amount of starch it will be weaker. Many in my neighborhood have tried the "super sweet" varieties and all have complained about the lack of seedling vigor, or even that the corn won't come up. We always try a row or two of something new but until someone can convince us there is a better corn than Incredible we will stick with it. Mike

El Toro · Feb 25, 2010

I use to use their seed when we had a Southern States store. They had a store here for a long time. They also sold Asgrow seed at one time. They always has onion plants and we would plant about 100 plants each of the purple, yellow and white plants. My wife liked planting these onion plants. Hal

LAA · Feb 25, 2010

We took our sons to Gettysburg and Antietam in 1988 and I bought some silver queen corn at a stand on a side road, maybe in baltimore county, anyway, my wife still talks about how good that corn tasted. I figure the soil and climate had something to do with it as well.

Stephen in SoKY · Feb 25, 2010

Incredible germinates well in soil that's a full 5 degrees cooler than most varieties I've tried. It also has excellent tip cover for those who don't spray.

twopop · Feb 25, 2010

ive tried bodacious, silver queen,peaches and cream etc. ambrosia beats them all
wilhite seed,poolville tx

El Toro · Feb 25, 2010

If we received decent rains during the Summer we would have very large ears and tall corn stalks.
Somone asked me if was field corn. That corn that we cut off the cob my wife would cooked it and then we froze it. It tasted just like you had just picked it when we ate it. Hal

mike pawlek · Feb 25, 2010

Silver Queen is all I plant anymore anything else just led to dissapointment.

keh · Feb 25, 2010

You guys up Nawth don't have Merit corn? I is easy to remove the silks, tastes great, matures in 60 days.

KEH

miner09 · Feb 25, 2010

I've tried it all, plant G 90.Its the sweetest corn. I have people come up to 100 miles to buy my corn and peas. Have 12 acres each year and repeat customers. Live in northeast Texas.

WhiskyDog · Feb 25, 2010

Gee I didn"t see my favorites on here put me down for silver king.
and how sweet it is.

Rollie NE PA · Feb 25, 2010

I plant Silver King, 5lbs and about 3lbs of Seneca Snow Shoe. The Seneca is an early corn, about 63 to 68 days. Last year I got $4.00 a dozen.

RayP(MI) · Feb 25, 2010

we"ve had best luck with "Phenominal", a bicolor, 85 days. We"re in mid-Michigan. Minimal irrigation, but it does better irrigated. We fertilize heavily with rabbit manure. Stalks and unharvested ears go to sheep, starting as soon as corn is picked.

Devon Hubbard · Feb 25, 2010

I gotta put my vote for Ambrosia sweet corn. I've been planting it for about five years now. It is, hands down, the best corn I've ever sunk my teeth into.

Anonymous-0 · Feb 25, 2010

Read the fine print on Gotta Have It.It shouldnt be planted near other corn.Quickie is ok but trinity is better.

Anonymous-0 · Feb 25, 2010

White corn is a hard sell here.Wife and I have planted corn for over 50 years.Have tried all varietys.Never got stuck on just one .Delectable has been our favorite for a while.Used to buy 5 pounds of seed for 5 bucks.

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