Every year I like to try to grow something that is hard to come by in your local shop.This year I have gone for Painted Mountain Corn.Painted Mountain contains every shade of color known to corn. The 4-5 foot stalks bear up to 2 narrow, 7 inch long cobs.Painted Mountain corn is ideal for growing in areas with a short growing season.
Painted Mountain is a Heirloom variety of corn. This means that the plants are open-pollinated (as opposed to hybrids) and so the the seeds can be saved from the crop and handed down from generation to generation.
The seeds I got for these came from Brown Envelope Seeds. Madeline, from Brown Envelope Seeds also keeps a blog. So stay tuned to see how I get on.
Hi Pat, Your blog loooks great. My problem with blogging is as soon as I've got someething interesting to blog about, I'm too busy to write it. Painted Mountain Corn is a fascinating variety and you can read its story on http://seedweneed.com/index-1.html I met Dave Christiansen, who developed it, at a conference in Oregon a few years ago. The first time I grew it I sowed climbing beans at the same time. The beans swamped the corn and I forgot about it until I was harvesting the dried beans and found that in spite of disappearing under the beans they had managed to produce perfect little cobs. It is the hardiest corn I have ever grown and is easy to grind in a coffee grinder, to make polenta. It comes out pink!
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