Glass gem corn happiness and beauty
Every year when I look through the seed catalogs, I always come across a picture that grabs my attention. A picture of a vegetable taken at peak ripeness and in perfect light. Last year was no exception, and it was Baker Creek’s catalog cover that drew me in. It’s always the same. I look at the picture, turn to Tracy and say I’m gonna grow that. So when the seed order for the year was placed glass gem was on the list. Glass Gem corn is a beautiful native american flint corn that can be used for flour or popcorn, but it’s this corn’s amazing color that makes it prized. In our area, we plant corn on memorial day weekend, so it was a long wait to get our seeds in the ground. We planted them away from our other corn to decrease the chance of cross pollination. After 2…
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What beautiful corn! Amazing!
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Thank you so much
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This is our first year trying to figure out if we can grow corn up here in the Rockies in our short, cool season. I hope it works! That corn is beautiful!
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Good luck maybe you could start it indoors or there are other varieties that are shorter that grow quicker
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