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Gummy Corn Sweet Corn

Quick Facts:

  • Native American sweet corn variety
  • Gummy Corn a synonym for sweet corn
  • Plants are 5' tall, great for small gardens
  • Produces two 6-8" ears per plant
  • Sweet yellow kernels hold well in the field

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Quantity: Packet (50 Seeds)

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Gummy Corn Sweet Corn

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Gummy Corn is a Native American sweet corn variety donated to the USDA in 1976 by Cora Blackbear of the Fort Berthold Mandan-Hidatsa-Arikara Reservation in North Dakota.  The name "Gummy Corn" likely comes from the general term used by the Hidatsa's to refer to sweet corn.  Plants are more compact than most other heirloom sweet corns—around 5' tall—making "Gummy Corn" an excellent choice for small gardens.  Plus, they consistently produce two 6-8" ears per plant!  Sweet, yellow kernels are especially delicious when harvested young, but also hold well in the fieldup to two weeks after silk tips have dried.  80-90 days to harvest.  Each packet contains a minimum of 50 seeds.

Zea mays

Gummy Corn is a Native American sweet corn variety donated to the USDA in 1976 by Cora Blackbear of the Fort Berthold Mandan-Hidatsa-Arikara Reservation in North Dakota.  The name "Gummy Corn" likely comes from the general term used by the Hidatsa's to refer to sweet corn.  Plants are more compact than most other heirloom sweet corns—around 5' tall—making "Gummy Corn" an excellent choice for small gardens.  Plus, they consistently produce two 6-8" ears per plant!  ... read more

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Zea mays

Gummy Corn is a Native American sweet corn variety donated to the USDA in 1976 by Cora Blackbear of the Fort Berthold Mandan-Hidatsa-Arikara Reservation in North Dakota.  The name "Gummy Corn" likely comes from the general term used by the Hidatsa's to refer to sweet corn.  Plants are more compact than most other heirloom sweet corns—around 5' tall—making "Gummy Corn" an excellent choice for small gardens.  Plus, they consistently produce two 6-8" ears per plant!  Sweet, yellow kernels are especially delicious when harvested young, but also hold well in the fieldup to two weeks after silk tips have dried.  80-90 days to harvest.  Each packet contains a minimum of 50 seeds.

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GARRY MILLER
So far so good

Sprouted in normal time and started growing quickly. Then some animal dug circles around the short stalks and ate the seed and roots off of half the crop. I ordered more seeds, soaked them overnight in water and they sprouted in half the time and are now about 8" shorter then the ones that did not get ate. Thankfully the ones that did not get ate were all grouped together and the news ones are also grouped together. I never in all the 60 years of growing gardens had my corn sprouts ate. Ist set over knee high on the day after the 4th of July. Second set catching up quickly. I will send a pic later.

Hi Garry, thanks for your review. We had this happen one time after a very mild winter. It turned out to be ground squirrels. They decimated nearly an acre of corn by doing just as you describe. We tried a number of different strategies to deter them but in the end, the only thing that worked was offering them cracked corn until our corn seedlings were old enough to no longer be appetizing. I feared it would only increase their populations, but (knock on wood) we haven't had it happen since.

Hope this helps! Thanks again for your order and your review.

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Donna Scrivner

Still too cold in the high desert to plant veggies. Will plant in April

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