Food independence is also important as people are learning. Op you can grow your own every year.
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I wanna narrow it down to just a few varieties that i would rotate yearly.
Going to try the honey and pearl again as well as Eden and a few more varieties I’ve bought this year.
I have seeds from this year’s honey and pearl. Will try last and this year in separate beds.
I think last year, i picked too late. I wasn’t at the house. Had already moved to Washington state so i had my neighbors pick and send them to me while the house was on the market. The people who bought my home said they bought it for the garden and all i had done outside to make everything easier. Funny thing, they also have a white shepherd 
i made it so that the dogs had room to play while we humans had room to garden. I think they appreciated that because they too, look like they adore their dogs. One of my neighbors turned her entire backyard into a garden with no regards for her dogs and I felt bad for them. Even in our new home, we’re planning on sectioning off a nice spot to put cover over so that the dogs can run even when it’s nonstop raining here.
I plan on getting raised beds in an orderly disorder around the property section for corn, grapes, Passionfruit, blueberries, raspberries, strawberries, figs, with some of the perimeter lined with peaches, plums, and Apricot. Planning on making a cover that we can take on and off of the peaches and plums as well for when the rain comes. Also a small section if pomegranate and feijoas. I have a bunch of Currants propagating right now as well for the birds.
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If I recall correctly, elote is made with grain corn that’s harvested early rather than sweet corn (although there may be a particular variety involved as well). Personally I much prefer that flavor over grocery store sweet corn, which is just too sweet for me. Give me that toasted corny flavor instead.
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Growing up im not sure anything was as good as what my dad grew. Truckers favorite yellow and white corn. Slathered in butter and salt in the oven. We also pickled it and made cornmeal. I need to grow it myself again. The desire to try all the new ones has been a fun ride but sometimes you cant fix what aint broke.
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Outside of what it says here, I have had packages of these seeds and they say sh2 on them.
This corn is REALLY good, but the company itself, not so much.
Honey -n Pearl in my opinion is just as good as Gotta Have It and less expensive. Like all corn it needs nitrogen. I used to use ammonia nitrate right on top of the soil but cant find it anymore. Now its urea, so have to hoe a trench at the drip line, lay in a nice band of urea and cover with soil. Lots more work than ammonia nitrate. I side dress when its about knee high and then again when it starts to tassle.
I also put my dog in the corn patch at night for a week to 10 days, right before the ear hairs start to turn brown. Works for keeping racoons from ruining the ears. He comes out during the day and after harvest.
Cattle also like the shucks, green leaves and stalks. So just about all of the corn plant is used here.
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Wanna trade a few? I bought honey and pearl last year from them.
Currently looking at raised beds right now.
I’ll be growing sh2 and a mushroom popcorn variety that i plan to put on a different corner of the of the lot.
I’m thinking maybe i harvested too late this year. I had my friend harvest them and i wasn’t around but i plan on making a harvesting calendar this upcoming year❤️
They have developed augmented supersweet varieties. Neighbor grew some gave us a dozen ears. Both my wife I agreed, too sweet for us.
Maybe try Wikipedia for augmented supersweet varieties i’m sure they come out with more every year.
I don’t typically buy from Gurney’s anymore. We plant about 3 acres (because we are small farmers), so I buy my seed from a bulk seed dealer.
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Ah okay.
Yeah I’m just doing a tiny plot of them
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Best sowed in blocks like 50’ x 50’ or 25’ x 25’ or whatever. I sow 2 seeds 1’ apart in rows 3’ apart for good pollination rates. I pull one of the doubles when they are about 6" tall and use the extra plants to fill in any skips. Thin and plant skips the evening before rain is expected. I would make my rows closer togther but i have to walk and hoe in there.
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Heres a Wikipedia link to augmented supersweet corn varieties.
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No. They are a result of standard classic breeding
Ah, maybe I should try sweet corn again. I haven’t done it in a while because we had a German Shepherd that loved to eat leftover cobs…until one got caught in his stomach and the heaving gave him a torsion (flipped stomach). Since his unexpected passing, we’ve always associated growing corn with bad memories, but reading of all this great corn has me tempted to try again. At least I know of some better varieties now.
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Oh man, I’m sorry that happened to you! I would be traumatized too. Maybe just shuck the corn for them in the future? That’s what i do. My Shepherd also loves fruits and veggies so i prepare them for her like i do with my 2 year old. I’m always worried about them as well because my last dog died from cancer and getting attacked by a pitbull out of jealousy at 4.5 years old. Chronos is 7/8, forgot which, but i worry daily about him as well just because Atlas died so early so i feel your hesitancy.
Do you want some seeds? I bought some and have since from last year to share as well too. I bought 1k of mushroom popcorn corn too on accident so i have that too if you’d like 
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Missed this thread until the sad story of a dog’s death brought it back. What a tragedy.
But in the subject of super-sweet corn, because we’ve planted corn on the 4th of July instead of seeing it knee high, we’ve bought corn at a roadside stand weeks before ours is ready. Kate has been offered for two seasons. It is particularly super sweet and, and, unlike most varieties, keeps its quality for quite a few extra days.
We grow Bodacious and Ambrosia ourselves and prefer them because their sweetness is balanced with a true corniness that Kate lacks, but that is true of most super-sweet varieties.
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i just mix the urea in water and pour it along the drip line just before a rain. the lazy way. 
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Grew up surrounded by sweet corn fields- mostly silver queen. Very small ears but absolutely delicious if you ate it right away. Some of my earliest food memories are of eating small ears of sweet corn and blue crabs on a summer weekend. No one grows sweet corn near my parents anymore but not too far away the farmers grow silver king and a wide variety of supersweet bi-colored corn varieties. I’ve spoken to one of them about growing silver queen and they say there is just no comparison between that and the newer supersweet varieties. Even if they could get the seeds they think no one would buy it. Anyway, thanks for listening to my TED talk and for the variety recommendations. I think you’ve inspired me to grow some sweet corn next summer.
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Can do the same with regular (unsented) household ammonia, no more than 2 tablespoons per gallon of water. At the beginning of the year, I see farmers applying anhydrous ammonia to their corn feilds. I asked why? It’s to increase the nitrogen content of the soil. Mix up a gallon and try it on a patch of lawn, you’ll see what I mean.
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