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Re: Was Traffic; now Corn

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Burpee's "Ruby Queen" is a red se type but not as good as some of the
other se types IMO, Burpee's "Breeders Choice", for example.  Burpee
introduced "Ruby Queen" in 1998 but I didn't get around to trying it
until this fall.  Seed is a bit pricey - about 2-3 times more than
others.

Re Indian corn, We find the blue Navajo ceremonial corn edible and easy
to grow but it is a flint corn and isn't sweet.  Makes okay corn meal
and somewhat ghastly looking fried mush but tastes okay.

I noticed one seed catalog claims the black Aztec corn came from the
Iroquois (Seneca).  Wonder how it traveled from Mexico to New York.

Speaking of All America winners, I tested the hybrid version of Juliet
tomato this year as part of the blind "Internet Tomato Trials".   It was
the most productive tomato I have ever seen - big bunches of up to 17
tomatoes in a cluster - but somewhat disappointing in flavor.

Olin

----- Original Message -----
From: Doreen Howard <doreen@fgi.net>
To: Square Foot Gardening List <sqft@listbot.com>
Sent: Thursday, November 25, 1999 9:40 PM
Subject: Was Traffic; now Corn


> Square Foot Gardening List - http://www.flinet.com/~gallus/sqft.html
>
> Hey Olin,
> How did that red corn from Burpee's taste?  Is it a supersweet or
what?  I'm
> curious enough to venture growing some next spring.  This season I
tested
> Indian Summer corn, an All-America Selection for 2000.  The seed will
be
> everywhere come January.  It was very tasty and easy to grow in the
square
> foot regime.  But, it wasn't as colorful as I expected.  If anyone is
> curious about the appearance of a Indian corn that is edible, I'll
gladly
> send them a jpeg as attached email.
> Doreen Howard,
> in the midst of the corn belt--Central Illinois
>


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