On 7/6/2010 4:52 PM, George Leppla wrote:
> On 7/6/2010 4:33 PM, Sky wrote:
>> James Silverton wrote:
>>>
>>> ChattyCathy wrote on Tue, 06 Jul 2010 22:49:28 +0200:
>>>
>>>> No.
>>>
>>> I'm not surprised given the role that maize plays in South African food.
>>> In the last few years the breeders seemed to have produced white corn
>>> that keeps its sweetness much longer than I remember from even 20 years
>>> ago.
>>>
>>> --
>>>
>>> James Silverton
>>> Potomac, Maryland
>>>
>>> Email, with obvious alterations: not.jim.silverton.at.verizon.not
>>
>> "Silver Queen" is ever oh-so much better than it used to be (I think?)!
>> Although, I'm not sure it (the really sweet white COB) still goes by
>> that name any longer - just different& improved hybrids, I'd assume?.
>> Alas, I believe the Silver Queen season is over - at least down south it
>> is (IIRC).
>
> Along with Silver Queen (white) I think the most popular sweet corn
> strain is Iochief (yellow). It grows pretty well almost anywhere.
>
> Corn takes up so much room that the only time I grew it was when a few
> neighbors got together and we plowed up an acre for nothing but sweet
> corn. Growing it at home in the typical garden isn't a good use of space.
>
> George L

Kind of hard to grow behind an eight-foot cedar fence too. Corn is
wind-pollinated. Before we put up the board fence we could grow a couple
of rows of sweet corn if we lined it up for the prevailing wind to blow
down the rows.